re: What is the weirdest building on your campus?

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They are a product of a bygone era. Ole Miss had an observatory that used to be used as a morgue during the civil war, any Bears know if it is still there. They also did some magnetic research in the building because it was neutral polarity. Lead walls and stuff.

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We have two observatories on our campus. One kind of looks like the South Carolina one. Barnard Observatory is the big one. It was built to house the largest telescope of it's time during the 1800s....but during the Civil War something kept it from getting to Oxford and it ended up in Chicago. Something like that.

Not sure on the morgue thing. I know our Journalism building was used as the morgue during the Civil War. I'd have to look into that. I should have read all the historic marker signs outside the buildings. But that building now has classrooms and stuff in it. The very top has a meeting room/classroom. It looks like something out of Harry Potter.