{"id":1743,"date":"2018-09-20T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2018-10-07T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:50:18","slug":"eckley-quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2018\/09\/20\/eckley-quad\/","title":{"rendered":"Named places: Eckley Quadrangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1760\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/10\/Robert_and_Nell_Eckley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\" wp-image-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/10\/Robert_and_Nell_Eckley.jpg\" alt=\"Robert and Nell Eckley\" width=\"181\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert S. and Nell Eckley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the heart of IWU\u2019s 82-acre campus is the park-like Eckley Quadrangle, named for IWU\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup> president Robert S. Eckley (1968-1986) and his wife Nell. They were instrumental in developing and implementing a landscaping plan for the Quad after Dutch elm disease destroyed almost all of the trees in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1764\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/09\/Aerial_Campus_Views.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1764\" class=\" wp-image-1764\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/09\/Aerial_Campus_Views.jpg\" alt=\"1970 campus aerial view\" width=\"213\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970 campus aerial view prior to Quad redesign<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1761\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/10\/Aerial_Campus_View.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\" wp-image-1761\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/10\/Aerial_Campus_View.jpg\" alt=\"1974 Aerial view of campus\" width=\"272\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1974 Aerial view of campus following redesign<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of IWU\u2019s 82-acre campus is the park-like Eckley Quadrangle, named for IWU\u2019s 15th president Robert S. Eckley (1968-1986) and his wife Nell. They were instrumental in developing and implementing a landscaping plan for the Quad after Dutch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2018\/09\/20\/eckley-quad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,115],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-administration","category-presidents","tag-buildings-and-grounds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2018\/10\/Robert_and_Nell_Eckley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}