Academia. Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States

The Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America’s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave rise at schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicago to unprecedented architectural fantasies that reshaped the image of the college campus. Today the ivy covered monuments of Collegiate Gothic still exercise a powerful hold on the public imagination as evidenced, for example, by their prominent place in the Dark Academia aesthetic that has swept social media.