Getting Around the Campus
Tucked away on a 500-acre former estate in Westchester County, our unique sprawling campus was designed by master architect Edward Larrabee Barnes whose master plan for the campus was loosely based on Thomas Jefferson’s for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Barnes clustered the buildings in a village center surrounded by the vast open space he left preserved.
Almost all the buildings on the Purchase campus are the same color. Why is that? Our campus master plan relied upon several highly renowned architects to design the buildings on the Main Plaza. To unify these diverse structures and bring coherence to the campus, the architects were required to use the same shade of brick.
Take an admissions tour and discover how easy it is to get around! All of the academic and administrative buildings are on the Main Plaza!