The red brick Tudor Gothic "castle on the hill" — Prudence Risley Hall at Cornell University, photographed shortly after its 1913 opening as the most lavishly appointed women's dormitory in the Ivy League. Architect William Henry Miller modeled the building after Hampton Court Palace, with no two bedrooms alike and a dining hall designed as a scaled replica of Christ Church Refectory at Oxford. The $300,000 gift of philanthropist Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage paid for the building; she named it for her late husband's mother. A father mailed this card to his son Lewis in Harrisburg in September 1915, reporting that the family had driven from Ithaca to Fayetteville the night before but had a blowout on the way up and broke a bolt, running 240 miles in the car.

• Caption: Prudence Risley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
• Card no.: 75-50
• Postmark: Ithaca, NY, Sep. 23, 1915
• Status: Posted
• Notable stamp: Scott 405 — U.S. 1c Washington, green, 1912