Fancy 'I' n 1995, President Hugo Sonnenschein initiated an effort to establish a formal Botanic Garden on the campus of the University of Chicago.  This effort builds on the landscape legacy of the campus.  It is
a long-term goal of the Botanic Garden to identify and restore several of these historic campus landscapes to celebrate the rich history of landscape design at the University of Chicago.
 

Sources  
Jean Block and May Theilgaard Watts, Chicago Historical
Society archives, South Park Commission Historical Register,
The University of Chicago Archives, Jean Block's The Uses
of Gothic, Jane Brown's The Gardening Life
of Beatrix Jones Farrand, and Lee Hall's
Olmsted's America.