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re: Went to Miss. St.'s campus yesterday - Beautiful
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:17 am to SunHog
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:17 am to SunHog
Its a matter of locale. Its not as sweltering up in the Ozarks in the summer, so there wasn't the same necessity of porches, and air flow and that led to different designs being favored.
Old Main and most of the rest of the campus core are distinctly different styles, but the limestone and red brick compliment each other well. Walking near Old Main is a very "grand" kind of awesome feeling, because its towers are 7-stories tall, and it sits at the crest of a hill, so it towers over the campus and city.
I think Alabama's campus is beautfiul, too, though.
I think a better comparison is UCA. I think in some ways that is a beautiful campus, but every building is identical in style, Georgian architecture, red brick. It is good in some ways, but boring in another way.
But this building will always feel like college to me.
Old Main and most of the rest of the campus core are distinctly different styles, but the limestone and red brick compliment each other well. Walking near Old Main is a very "grand" kind of awesome feeling, because its towers are 7-stories tall, and it sits at the crest of a hill, so it towers over the campus and city.
I think Alabama's campus is beautfiul, too, though.
I think a better comparison is UCA. I think in some ways that is a beautiful campus, but every building is identical in style, Georgian architecture, red brick. It is good in some ways, but boring in another way.
But this building will always feel like college to me.
This post was edited on 3/5/12 at 12:18 am
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Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:41 am to Numberwang
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Its a matter of locale. Its not as sweltering up in the Ozarks in the summer, so there wasn't the same necessity of porches, and air flow and that led to different designs being favored.
Exactly, you know who else has this exact setup in the SEC?
They haven't done a very good job on the campus from my personal experience attending a game there..... Tennessee.
You'd think for a University from 1794 would have amazing things, wrong. It's concrete jungle in those other hills.
However, our sorority houses are beautiful and to this day are still some of the best in the entire south. Porches, balconies and traditional greek style all with lawns.
Then......
Boom back to Gothic, ha ha.
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