(02-18-2013 05:58 PM)HtownOrange Wrote:  

(02-18-2013 05:39 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote:  

(02-18-2013 02:37 PM)HtownOrange Wrote:  One of things is not like the others...MIAMI! Classic architecture vs. Modern, no contest, the classics win out.

Not to be confused with "old"

The Wren Building at William & Mary is (i think) the oldest academic building in the US but it doesn't quite have enough flair for my tastes.


In fact, most of that campus can be described by the phrase "old bricks"

By "old bricks", do you mean buildings, professorship, or both?

Looks like a monestary or something. You are right, plain is plain.

I would put the Wren building as one of the tops in the nation as far as best college buildings.

History: a ton...been around since 1700, restored 1920. It is the oldest continually used academic building in the US and also served as the seat of the Virginia legislature in various years and also as a hospital during the American Revolution. It is a US Historic Landmark. I think only Nassau Hall at Princeton can compare for history.

Use: it serves just not as an administrative building that no one sees, but is also the symbolic and actual center of university life at William & Mary. It contains classrooms, the school's chapel, meeting and special event space and the first floor serves as a Colonial Williamsburg exhibition space.

The architecture is typical colonial renaissance. The picture above is the rear of the building. You have to remember its setting as well, in Colonial Williamsburg. It's interior is also carefully restored.

Good info, CrazyPaco. Nice pics of the Wren building.