Maybeck and Principia College

This women’s dormitory was the first of the campus residence halls to be completed, and Maybeck was relatively free to use both traditional and modern materials throughout. This three-story building sets the manorial scale for the residences, and it is especially rich in its combined use of concrete, stone, half-timber, and brick, the whole framed in structural steel. He even included a concrete roof on the steel frame, with concrete and roofing tile flowing softly around steel-framed dormers and over fluid eaves. The interior includes a fine Gothic stairway and hallways that evoke a mood of mystery.