With its palm-lined drive, Gibson Hall appears to be a tropical outpost in this photograph, circa 1910. The Tulane University uptown campus is referred to in an 1898 publication: “The grounds purchased by the administrators…as the new location for the university are extensive and admirably adapted for the purpose, having 582 feet front on St. Charles Avenue, facing Audubon Park, and extending over 12,000 feet in narrowing lines toward the rear of the city.”
