Following a design competition in 1900, supervised by Peabody, the Board of Trustees selected designs by partner architects William Boring (1859-1937), and Edward Lippincott Tilton (1861-1933), co-designers of the U.S. immigration station at Ellis Island in New York harbor and other significant structures, in the then popular beaux arts architectural style. Over the next five years, stone buildings were built on the bluffs above Port Deposit using its famous local Port Deposit granite overlooking the Susquehanna River. The tree-lined streets of the campus were designed by nationally well known landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), who had also designed New York's Central Park and converged at the steps of Memorial Hall. Olmsted selected well-known landscape architect Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871-1928), to design the school's gardens. By 1902, the school had more than a dozen buildings and an endowment of $2 million ($ today). Thirteen of these buildings survive: Memorial Hall, three dormitories (Jackson, Madison, and Harrison), the Chesapeake Inn dormitory and dining hall, the Director's residence, the Monroe Gymnasium, and six Master's cottages. Erika L. Quesenbery, author of "United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge", wrote that Memorial Hall was the school's "centerpiece".