re: What's the most recognizable landmark on your campus?

Alabama has to be Denny Chimes and the Presidents mansion




Little history on the Presidents Mansion.
During the Civil War UA was used to train officers for the Confederacy know as the "West Point of the Confederacy," sending roughly 200 cadets into the field each year.

On April 3, 1865, Union Brigadier General John T. Croxton and 1500 cavalrymen approached Tuscaloosa. Croxton had orders to destroy all targets of military value in the town. Tuscaloosa was captured on that day, and all of its factories and the river bridge destroyed. On April 4 Croxton sent Colonel Thomas M. Johnston and two hundred men to burn the university. In the midst of carrying out his orders, university faculty pleaded with Johnston to spare the library rotunda. Johnston sent a message via courier to Croxton, asking if he might spare the building. Croxton replied " “My orders leave me no discretion... My orders are to destroy all public buildings."

Although technically a private residence, the President's Mansion was also set on fire that day. Tradition maintains that the president's wife, Louisa Frances Garland, arrived at the mansion from the temporary refuge of Bryce Hospital just as soldiers were setting a pile of furniture inside the building alight. She persuaded them to douse the flames, thus sparing the house. The mansion was one of only seven buildings on the campus spared destruction; the others were the Gorgas House, Little Round House, Observatory and a few faculty residences

Yeah, wasn't that big on the site I got it from... Or was it... lol

Ventress is pretty cool. There's a huge stained glass window of the Battle of Gettysburg on the side of it that faces the Grove and the spire has names written in it from the past 100 years or so. You have to break into the building to sign your name in the spire (or so I've heard) and, rumor has it, that one can clearly find and read signatures from Faulkner and the Mannings, which is cool.

(mike the tiger and his palace)

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Samford Hall and the Auburn University 1856 sign in front of it for AU.

Sorry, no pic.

Aside from the Arch, I'd say the Chapel



and the Chapel Bell





Though not on campus, I'm partial to this slutty landmark

The Horseshoe is the oldest part of the University. The Brick wall was originally designed to keep students inside the campus and away from the local ale houses, but it actually served to prevent the campus from burning along with the rest of the city when Sherman marched through Columbia.





Horseshoe Today


Circa 1909


Circa 1850

Samford Hall