Clark Gate was renamed Honnold Gate in honor of Mr. and Mrs. William Honnold of Los Angeles, longtime friends of The Claremont Colleges, whose many gifts culminated in the donation of funds to build the Honnold Library of The Claremont Colleges in 1952. Honnold Gate faces onto Eleventh Street and joins the central campus with properties between Columbia and Dartmouth Avenues, acquired in the 1980-90s.
Edward Huntsman-Trout of Los Angeles designed Honnold Gate and included a graceful "SC" in its wrought iron decoration. On the wall outside Honnold Gate are the College's seal and an inscription by Ellen Browning Scripps. The pylons that flank the gate inspired landscape architect Katherine Spitz of Marina del Rey in her 1996 design for the Dartmouth Avenue entry areas. As noted in the 1944 guidebook, the east-west walkway that leads from Eleventh Street to Dorsey Hall is a major vista, and retains some of the clipped hedges along the upper lawns that were planted in the 1930s.