The Making of University of Michigan History

Law Quad construction completed...

With the opening of Hutchins Hall in Fall 1933 the Law Quad was completed at a total cost of $4.79 million. William W. Cook ('80, '82l), a successful, if controversial, Wall Street lawyer, had funded construction of the Lawyers' Club which was completed in 1924. The John P. Cook Dormitory followed in 1930 and the William W. Cook Legal Research Building in 1931. Designed by Starret Brothers of New York in Tudor Gothic style, the Quad was supposed to resemble the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the Inns of Court in London.

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Photo Source: Aerial View of Law Quad, Universityof Michigan Photographs Vertical File