Trinity College Long Walk

"In an ambitious gesture, then President Abner Jackson chose William Burges, one of England's leading architects, to design the new buildings.

The Long Walk was executed in the High Victorian Gothic style, popular in England and the United States in the second half of the 19th century.

Burges had wanted the buildings to be arranged in quadrangular fashion, but his plans were drastically cut back to form a long bar-like range, whose bold silhouette dominates the central green space of the campus known as The Quad.

The first, commemorating a 1954 visit by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is marked in a Greek inscription within a triangular planting and is located in front of Downes Memorial Clock Tower.

The second marker, commemorating the 1918 visit of President Theodore Roosevelt, is midway down the Long Walk and adjacent to the Fuller Arch and the Wall of Honor.

As of the 2008 school year, the massive Long Walk Reconstruction project was completed, and the dorms are built in a classic style.