Looking northeast. The Women's Quadrangle was built in 1915, with a combined cost of about $1 million for the quadrangle, and the men's halls in 1916-17. Number C12271.
W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
