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steve The Palo Alto Stock Farm
They built a school of stone where their only boy used to ride
steve Following her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford single-handedly saved the university from financial ruin using her personal wealth.
steve Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed a unique, open-air campus layout that broke away from traditional East Coast styles.
steve Drag campus buildings onto the Palo Alto Farm to learn how Stanford University began.
Stanford family tomb: The founders and their son are buried on campus in a grand granite-and-marble mausoleum.
An infectious bacterial disease characterized by fever, headache, and severe intestinal inflammation. Leland Stanford Junior's 1884 death from this illness prompted his parents to found the university.
What architectural style, featuring sandstone walls and red tile roofs, defines Stanford's Main Quad?
Which famous landscape architect, who also designed Central Park, co-designed Stanford's campus?
In what year did Stanford University officially open its doors to its first class of students?
How did Jane Stanford fund the university when the family estate was frozen by lawsuits in the 1890s?
Stanford University was founded in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., who died of which disease?