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The Campus Plan. In 1876, Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of what had been El Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his Palo Alto Stock Farm for trotting horses.
There are about 700 buildings at Stanford that incorporate more than 15.3 million square feet square. About 60 percent of these buildings are larger than 5,000 square feet and account for more than 15 million square feet of the total.