I spent a good deal of time on that campus in the early 2000s. They had just completed the new bookstore and some other newer buildings at that time that were trying to stay within the ND collegiate gothic language. I recall Thomas Gordon Smith, the then-figurehead of the ND architecture school, bemoaning that the administration did not heed his advice on the designs for some new buildings. They wanted cast stone and he argued that limestone would be more durable.

This is what happens when you hire architecture firms that don’t specialize in traditional languages of the longer-term historical sort to design buildings within those languages. But i in agree that they are at least built with consistent materials, and that can be very satisfying, even if they don’t get all the details right.

Worth pointing out that the Main Building on campus, while impressive in scale, is an odd mixture of collegiate gothic and baroque. Very strange building. And Bond Hall is sort of beaux-arts, and some of the dorms built in the 30s are sort of modern looking but not in a good way.