College days

[owlmoose]

Now this is cool. A database of historic and significant campus architecture.

Bryn Mawr is well represented, of course. I lived in this building for two years (freshman and senior).

There are those who say that Bryn Mawr looks like Princeton, sharing the Collegiate Gothic style. The same architects (Cope & Stewardson) designed a lot of the core buildings, so there is something to that. However, architectural historians agree that the first-ever Collegiate Gothic building is Radnor, a BMC dorm (where I also lived, as a sophmore). So it's not so much that Bryn Mawr looks like Princeton, as that Princeton looks like Bryn Mawr. Take that, patriarchy! ;)

I do love looking at pictures of the old alma mater. It was such a beautiful place to be.

Comments

[anzubird.livejournal.com]

I just have to say-

YAY Radnor!!!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Well, of course. Always yay Radnor. ;)

[muggy-mountain.livejournal.com]

Interesting links and some lovely pictures.

Your third link seems to change every click, though. The first picture I saw had palm trees, which really confused me as I didn't think such vegetation grew in Pennsylvania.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Whoops, duh. I pasted in the wrong link. The right one is there now. :) Yup, no palm trees in PA.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Aww. I need to upload my Princeton pictures -- it's a much more eclectic campus, but there was one building in particular where I stopped and started pointing gleefully, saying, "I bet that was designed by the same architect that did Bryn Mawr! I know that archway!" It looked exactly like the gateway arch through the two Pembroke halls, which was where I usually lived.

You can see two of my three rooms on this page (http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p2114) -- the windows just to the right of the arch on the 2nd floor for my frosh year, and then the rightmost window visible on the top floor. I loved that attic room. Snow or rain would fall on the window over my head -- slanted ceiling -- and when it was clear, I was always looking at the moon or stars.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Ooh cool. So you were an Eastie Beastie? I lived in West one year and liked that a lot, although have you *seen* the place post-renovation? The space over the arch is completely drool-worthy.