Trip Part 3 - Emery Hall

[laurapalmer813]

OK folks, here's something really pretty! This was a real treat! I wanted to see this place because a) well, just LOOK AT IT!, and b) it looks a lot like the Masonic boys' home in Guthrie, OK, used to look - I heard rumors but I never made it there until it was being remodeled, so of course I am sad

Comments

[iamcyber]

Did you know that 70% of the buildings on this campus (formerly supposedly ALL part of Wilberforce University) were destroyed by the 1974 F5 tornado? That twister is suppsoedly the strongest most destructive tornado ever recorded; Emery Hall had a front-row seat to the carnage!!

Hi, I'm iamcyber and I'm a useless factoid geek. :>

[laurapalmer813]

Oh yeah, I did read about a tornado ripping through campus and taking out everything BUT Emery Hall! Good that it was saved though, cause it be purdy!

[iamcyber]

The Carnegie library next door was spared as well.

[iamcyber]

PS - did you get any pix of the really OLD farm equipment in the trees around back near the little gully?

[laurapalmer813]

No, I vaguely remember you taking some pics over there but I was too hypnotized by the looming building!

I think a mosquito just bit me! :O

[scienter]

Love the pictures! And OMG how cute are YOU???

[laurapalmer813]

Thank you! I'm feeling about as big as that building right now!

[jesse_dylan]

It's so beautiful... I almost hate to see it "restored" or whatever. "Restore" sometimes ends up "remodel," and that makes my heart sad. :(

And what a belly! That's okay; we'd be worried if it were smaller, you know.

[spiralflames]

these are FABULOUS...

also i found all the abandoned ft.snelling bldgs...i had NO clue that all that existed, and so close to where i live...WHY aren't these bldgs being lived in????