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Well, it's the off-season and news has slowed to trickle. I thought it might be interesting to discuss the most interesting features of our various schools. I envision this as a fairly broad topic ranging from architectural features, to interesting restaurants, or cool back-stories. I'll kick things off with a couple of my favorites.

St. Joan of Arc Chapel: Originally built in the 1400's in France, this building was donated to the school and transplanted brick by brick to the MU campus. Many of the features inside the building are also period, such as the tapestries and some of the crucifixes, are even older than the building itself. I believe it is the only medieval structure in North America that is still being used for it's original purpose.

J.R.R. Tolkien: MU possesses the original manuscripts for the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Just a couple to get things started. Take it away, folks.

marquette wrote:Well, it's the off-season and news has slowed to trickle. I thought it might be interesting to discuss the most interesting features of our various schools. I envision this as a fairly broad topic ranging from architectural features, to interesting restaurants, or cool back-stories. I'll kick things off with a couple of my favorites.

St. Joan of Arc Chapel: Originally built in the 1400's in France, this building was donated to the school and transplanted brick by brick to the MU campus. Many of the features inside the building are also period, such as the tapestries and some of the crucifixes, are even older than the building itself. I believe it is the only medieval structure in North America that is still being used for it's original purpose.

J.R.R. Tolkien: MU possesses the original manuscripts for the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Just a couple to get things started. Take it away, folks.

My first post here isn't about a Xavier campus feature, it's about how cool that is for Marquette. Very nice.

marquette wrote:Well, it's the off-season and news has slowed to trickle. I thought it might be interesting to discuss the most interesting features of our various schools. I envision this as a fairly broad topic ranging from architectural features, to interesting restaurants, or cool back-stories. I'll kick things off with a couple of my favorites.

St. Joan of Arc Chapel: Originally built in the 1400's in France, this building was donated to the school and transplanted brick by brick to the MU campus. Many of the features inside the building are also period, such as the tapestries and some of the crucifixes, are even older than the building itself. I believe it is the only medieval structure in North America that is still being used for it's original purpose.

J.R.R. Tolkien: MU possesses the original manuscripts for the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Just a couple to get things started. Take it away, folks.

You didn't mention the beautiful architecture of lalumiere or Olin? Tisk tisk

When Xavier moved from downtown Cincinnati out to the "burbs" in the early 20th Century, it began with what became the Academic Row, which sits atop an elevated area above Victory Parkway. I've always liked the drive along Victory Parkway with that part of campus on one side:



That photo doesn't show the entirety of it, but you get the idea.

Hinkle Hall, the oldest building on campus (circa 1919), is a three-story Tudor-Gothic structure with turrets modeled after the Xavier family castle in Navarre, Spain.

Xudash wrote:When Xavier moved from downtown Cincinnati out to the "burbs" in the early 20th Century, it began with what became the Academic Row, which sits atop an elevated area above Victory Parkway. I've always liked the drive along Victory Parkway with that part of campus on one side:



That photo doesn't show the entirety of it, but you get the idea.

Hinkle Hall, the oldest building on campus (circa 1919), is a three-story Tudor-Gothic structure with turrets modeled after the Xavier family castle in Navarre, Spain.

Also the baseball field shows the backdrop of it:



Much better in person and not a hastily taken photo of my tv on my phone.

Sculptures! Some said, "too many," but those people were taken away. lol.

Infamous 1930's gangster John Dillinger was shot and killed outside the Biograph Theater on North Lincoln Ave, just north of what will be DePaul's new School of Music.

All I got on short notice.

The liberty bell's sister is located on Nova's campus. After the first one cracked immediately in 1751, the PA assembly ordered a bell of the same size to replace it, but decided to keep using the cracked one after the sister arrived.

https://blog.library.villanova.edu/2009 ... erty-bell/

Also, we have this on our campus: http://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016 ... 0x1254.jpg

#bang