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re: What is the weirdest building on your campus?
Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:19 pm to MaroonNation
Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:19 pm to MaroonNation
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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.
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.
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Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:21 pm to RebelNutt48
Not sure about weired, but Rice and Lee Hall on MSU's campus are pretty cool. Lee Hall stays open all night, including the President's office. We would constantly break in there and sneak onto the roof....pretty cool.
Rice Hall (olds girls' dorms) have a cemetary tunnel underneathh. Always fun.
Rice Hall (olds girls' dorms) have a cemetary tunnel underneathh. Always fun.
Posted on 5/18/11 at 10:28 pm to RebelNutt48
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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.
I specifically remember them referencing an observatory used as a morgue because the lead walls kept the temperature at a constant temp. Anyway, regardless of school affiliation, I am a fan of old history. Hell I have spent hours in the city cemetery in Natchez. One of the most historic cemeteries in the southeast and on par with St. Louis and Lafayette cemeteries in New Orleans.
ETA: It came to me while i rambled, they would bring ship's navagational compasses to the observatory and calibrate and test them because the lead walls wouldn't allow any magnetic interference.
This post was edited on 5/18/11 at 10:31 pm
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