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City of Houston from Rice, c1914-15

I found this recently in a scrapbook that was kept by Elmer Shutts ’16:

It looks great but unfortunately things have changes so much that I can’t get my bearings at all. Does anyone understand what we’re looking at here?

I’m assuming that it was taken from the top of the Administration Building because that was the highest place you could get on campus and I’m guessing that it was taken around 1915 because I happen to know that Shutts was up there about that time with a camera. That’s him on the left:

Bonus:

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