Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center | place with historical importance, equestrianism

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The campus was originally Sen. Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm, where he raised trotting horses. In 1877 (fourteen years before the founding of the university) Stanford hired Eadweard Muybridge use his ingenious method of serial photography to record the movement of horses in various gaits. Description of the Muybridge experiments are here www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2001/mayjun/featur...

The facility has been in continous use by students, faculty, and the community. More on the history here: www.stanford.edu/group/set/Barn/history.htm
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Coordinates:   37°25'26"N   122°11'5"W
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