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 ====== Gate Posts ======
-[{{ :34617033.jpg?300|The gate posts with old gates, ca. 1900. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34617033|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
+[{{ :33120331.jpg?direct&300|Drawing of Trinity College Old Gates by Charles Loomis, 1876. Photo credit:[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.33120331|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
-[{{ :33120331.jpg?direct&300|Drawing of Trinity College Old Gates, 1876, by Charles Loomis. Photo credit:[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.33120331|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
+[{{ :gates_sketch.jpg?300|Drawing of Trinity College Old Gates, ca. 1897. Photo Credit: //Trinity Ivy//, 1897}}]
 Two brownstone gate posts, which originated from the [[old_campus|old campus]], are located on [[vernon_street|Vernon Street]] marking the entrance to a pathway next to the [[english_department_building_115_vernon|English Department building]] (formerly the [[president_s_house|President's house]]). They are engraved with "TC" for Trinity College.
-Local painter Charles R. Loomis captured the gate posts in an 1876 sketch, in which the posts have iron gates hanging on them. According to a 1932 //[[tripod|Tripod]]// article, the sketch was prominently displayed in  President [[ogilby_remsen_brinckerhoff|Ogilby's]] office.
+The posts originally stood "facing towards the north across the driveway which ran back of the old college buildings" ((1897 //Ivy//, p. 96)) or "faced what is now known as Capitol Avenue, at the end of Washington Street." ((1932 //Tripod//, p. 3)) According to a 1932 //[[tripod|Trinity Tripod]]// article, "The gates are also shown on a photograph of the [[jarvis_hall|College]] building, taken from Washington Street." Local painter Charles R. Loomis captured the gate posts in an 1876 sketch, which was prominently displayed in President [[ogilby_remsen_brinckerhoff|Remsen Ogilby's]] office.
-At the old campus, the gates stood opposite the intersection of Rifle Avenue (now Capitol Ave) and Washington Street, marking the main entrance of the College. An 1866 map from the Trinity //Catalogue// shows this location.
+The gates and posts found their way back to campus by happenstance, as they were not intentionally preserved when the old campus was demolished during the 1878 move to [[summit_campus|Summit Street]]. There are differing accounts relaying the whereabouts and provenance of the gates and posts, but by all accounts the posts were restored to their current location by 1897 and the gates were taken on and off of the posts over the following decades, being stored either on campus or sent to metalworkers.
-The gates found their way back to campus by happenstance, as they were not intentionally preserved when the old campus was demolished during the 1878 move to [[summit_campus|Summit Street.]] Sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s, John James McCook Jr., Class of 1863 and Professor of Modern Languages, found the iron gates in the Taylor and Fenn ironworkers yard, and Walter S. Schutz, Class of 1894, found the brownstone gate posts which had been separated from the gates.
+[{{:34617033.jpg?250 |The gate posts in their current location, ca. 1932. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34617033|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
-Schutz had the gate posts installed at Vernon Street and Broad Street, marking the East entrance to the College. However, the road was too wide to hang the iron gates, so they were put into storage in [[northam_towers|Northam Towers.]] [{{:screenshot_169_.png?direct&250 |The gate posts in their current location. Photo credit: Amanda Matava, 2022}}]
+[{{:screenshot_169_.png?direct&250 |The gate posts in their current location, ca. 2022. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}]
+According to the 1932 //Tripod// article, John James McCook Jr., Class of 1863 and Professor of Modern Languages, found the iron gates in the Taylor and Fenn ironworkers yard ((1932 //Tripod//, p. 3)) in the early 1900s, and Walter S. Schutz, Class of 1894, found the brownstone posts which had been separated from the gates. Schutz had the gate posts installed at Vernon Street on either side of the wide drive entering the College from Vernon Street at the President's House. The road was too broad to hang the iron gates, so they were put into storage "in the catacombs of [[northam_towers|Northam Towers]]."
-A 1918 //Tripod// article details that the gates "closed forever" in 1897, and that they were currently in the basement of [[jarvis_hall|Jarvis Hall.]]
+In 1897, the //[[ivy|Trinity Ivy]]// stated that the iron gates were "at Lincoln's foundry on Arch Street, [[hartford|Hartford]]," and that the posts were at the Vernon Street entrance; ((It is important to note here that the "Vernon street entrance" does not mean the Vernon/Broad streets intersection, but a street that entered the College at the President's House toward Alumni Hall.)) an accompanying sketch was noted to have been made "with the kind permission of Mr. Lincoln." In 1918, the Tripod notes that "those fine old gates...are now in the basement of Jarvis Hall," and that they "closed forever" in 1897. The language "closed forever," in regard to the date, is unclear.
-In 1932, the gates were restored and placed at their current location. During this project, a road leading to [[alumni_hall|Alumni Hall]] from Vernon street was eliminated and a flagstone walk installed "with the old stone gate posts brought into a position on either side of the walk" and "the original iron gates, after 55 years of rusting and resting in obscurity, were once more hung on their ancient hinges."
+In 1932, the road leading to [[alumni_hall|Alumni Hall]] from Vernon street was eliminated and a flagstone sidewalk installed "with the old stone gate posts brought into a position on either side of the walk" and "the original iron gates, after 55 years of rusting and resting in obscurity, were once more hung on their ancient hinges." ((1932 //Tripod//, p. 3))
 Today, the stone posts remain on Vernon Street. However, the iron gates have been removed and their whereabouts are unknown.