What is the Stone Complex?
The Stone complex is the main medical center complex at Stanford University designed by Edward Durrell Stone. It includes the Alway, Edwards,Grant, and Lane Buildings. From 1913 to 1959, The Stanford University Medical Center was housed in a nineteenth-century brick building on Clay Street in San Francisco. After the 1953 decision was made under President Wallace Sterling’s administration to move the medical center to Palo Alto, Edward Durrell Stone was hired to design the new facilities. The Stone buildings included the School of Medicine, research labs, and patient care facilities. His two main design components were interconnected buildings and interior courtyards. The low, three-story height of the complex, with its many courtyards, columns and covered walkways, emulates the essential character of the central Stanford campus, while the texture, repeating pattern, and color of the tiles remain sympathetic to the rough-hewn sandstone of the earlier buildings. Stone, though concerned
