The Peabody Institute's plot hall ...

The Peabody Institute's plot hall (built in 1866) and its adjacent library (complet in 1878) were the first buildings onward a campus envisioned to be a "common loam where all may meet," by dint of its benefactor, the 19th-century international banker and philanthropist George Peabody.
The six-building campus onward the grounds of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was built above a period of 138 years, have relationed by Peabody Plaza, an alleyway at the rear of the plan hall and library. Physically, the "common ground" Peabody sought was nowhere to be build