[March 2]
1911

Captain James A. Baker and the trustees join architect William Ward Watkin to lay the cornerstone of the Administration Building (now Lovett Hall). Baker and Edgar Odell Lovett plan and oversee Rice's impressive early growth.

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William Ward Watkin and Captain Baker (5th and 6th from left) watch as trustees sign cornerstone documents.
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