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WOW!! What a magnificently beautiful building.  Do you know when it was built?  I'd love to attend Iowa State University, but I'd probably not do much studying for gazing at the architecture and furnishings!   

Great photos!

What a beautiful place. I would love to go there with you Jane.

Beautiful building, awesome photos!

You can see more of my pictures of this building at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_pat/sets/72157600380773947/

These are beautiful buildings. 

I would love to take a walk through the U grounds and go into the buildings.  They have such a peaceful atmosphere.  I am willing to bet that it changes during the school year though!

Are there any more interesting buildings?

You said you went to Iowa State, What courses did you take?

It gets mighty cold in the winter, often subzero with blowing snow drifts, and a huge open meadow in central campus to cross.   Those old buildings were mighty inviting, I can tell you.

I graduated in bacteriology, mostly because I accumulated enough hours in that subject first.   I spent a lot of years there interrupted by a war, and got my bachelor's degree in that school.

I understand Iowa winters.  Spent enough years driving through there!

I love the preservation of the old.  There is so much to teach our youn in their preservation.

Are there any other campus buildings, you can include in this forum.  They are so beautiful and you capture the personality of each one!

This one faces Beardshear, across a long stretch of open central campus.   It was taken by my wife, but I like it better than any I have of this building.

My wife's old residence when she attended ISU.


She's furious with the university; they kept the Georgian exterior, but gutted the interior, and made it modern.   

I think this is the oldest surviving building on campus, built in 1890 and named in honor of the Congressman whose law made Land Grant Colleges possible.   It at one time housed just about everything in the college.

It was slated to be torn down, as it was in terrible structural shape, but they found the funds to restore it and I'm glad they did.   I never took a class in there, but there was this store in the basement where you could buy film and paper, and chemicals at wholesale, for your school projects, and they never asked questions about that.

Wow they are amazing.

I just love the History you have included.

It is too bad they gutted the interior of that one, it kind of spoils the "aura" knowing that.

Lovely pictures. 

BTW, the picture of Morrill Hall is also by my wife.

I would love to see a picture of both you and your wife! 

Perhaps sometime soon?

Thank you for this wonderful tour of old architecture!

Yes Sue, I agree. I would love to see more if you have any more!

Just a lovely array of photos of your old alma mater! 

I've made you a "friend" on flickr!  Some more wonderful shots on there.

Thanks so much for sharing.