| By the late 1950s, Skidmore's new president and administrators
found that properly maintaining the campus's century-old buildings was
increasingly difficult. Furthermore, a new highway (now Interstate
87) was to be built over a tract of the college's recreational land.
Plans to redesign the existing campus were entertained, but in 1960, trustee J. Erik Jonsson offered to donate to the college a tract of nearly 1,000 acres of land just two miles north of the
existing campus. In 1961 the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept his offer and build a new campus on the wooded site. |
