What are those other buildings? A Guide to what’s Outside of Newhouse
If you haven’t already explored the local Hogwarts, the spaceship building, the T.V. Library, the Pantheon, sunset points and many more such interesting spaces on the campus, this fall is the time. From the oldest building on campus, constructed in 1871 to the recent building being done in 2016, architecture at Syracuse University, spanning more than hundred years, is a mixed-bad. You must have definitely walked past more than one of these, take a peek inside?
1. College of Visual and Performing Arts:
Known as Hogwarts, I am sure every potterhead will want a picture with/of this building. The interiors will amaze you equally. Originally named John Crouse Memorial College for Women, also called as Crouse College of Fine Arts, it is the fifth oldest building on campus. The bell tower housed the first tower chimes installed in Syracuse. Did you listen to chimes playing ‘All of me’ lately?
2. Hendricks Chapel:
Built in brick and limestone, similar to a Roman Pantheon, Hendricks Chapel was the third largest University chapel in the country at the time of its construction. It forms a powerful backdrop for any gathering on the university campus. The chapel will complete hundred years in 2029.
3. New addition to Link Hall:
The building with no straight lines which connects the existing engineering school building to the adjacent architecture school in Slocum Hall, is intended to stand in contrast to the existing buildings in both style and material. Industrial in its character, basic structure, and material, the faceted form of Link Hall expresses its program of aggregated environmental and material research. The mineral-like form of the building is meant to be understood as a metaphorical diamond.
4. Heroy Lobby- Geology Building:
How can anyone miss a 10-foot-diameter, inflatable, illuminated globe rotating all night inside the Geology Building! Very visible all day, all night while walking along the Crouse Dr. Street towards Falk College or the Carrier Dome. it is tilted on a 23.5° axis, the same axial tilt as the Earth. It is made of a giant NASA mosaic photograph consisting of thousands of individual images taken from satellites that provide an incredibly accurate depiction of planet Earth.
5. Falk College:
The best place to experience sunset in the SU campus is located between the MacNaughton Hall and the White Hall of Falk College. It is a open air lobby overlooking the Irving avenue and the city behind. Ans they have put up wooden benches to enjoy the view!
6. Holden Observatory:
Looks like Hagrid’s hut, you might miss this humble building located exactly next to the Falk College. The second oldest building on campus, it houses an Observatory. The observatory has an eight inch Alvin Clark telescope, 3 inch reversible transit, a comet seeker, chronograph and chronometer. The telescope is housed in a tower with a rotating dome. You can book a slot to see the stars!
7. Carnegie Library:
Overlooking the Quad, the Carnegie Building houses the library that you will enjoy to sit and study in. It is straight out of one of libraries that you grew up seeing in a movie or a T.V. show. The building is one of only two original Carnegie libraries on a college campus still being used as a library. Hope you enjoy the reading room!
8. Hall of Languages:
It is the oldest building on campus. Though it underwent a number of renovations, addition of an elevator and a central stairway, concrete floors replaced those of the wood, the original timber columns were replaced with steel, the exteriors remain still the same. One other original piece of wood, back from 1871, is still retained in the mansard roof. The central stairway is worth a view.
Also, all points to lighting!
