April 28, 2006

Gothic for Now and Tomorrow

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Not many colleges have tried out more names than architectural styles. But Rhodes College, now on its seventh name, has been adamant about putting up only Collegiate Gothic buildings since 1925, when it moved here from Clarksville, Tenn. What really sets Rhodes apart, though, is that the Collegiate Gothic buildings it puts up are so good.

Its new library, at 136,000 square feet, could easily have been a big steel-framed box with a few purposeless Gothic details glued on —

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