Out on the Town

[May 2019]
Last post from spring, then we can start talking about early summer. Actually, the only reason for this post is to show off some architecture photos from my wanderings across campus. I’m not an architectural photographer and I’m still shooting on my kit lens, so no super wide-angle facades, zoom lens details, or tilt-shift. Here are some buildings:

 North Campus quad with the Duderstadt Center in the background.

Also known as the Dude, the building houses the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library.

Interesting combination, but the three schools located on North Campus are the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (ampersand and no Oxford comma according to their site), the College of Architecture & Urban Planning (again with the ampersand), and the College of Engineering.

Mosher-Jordan Hall.

The internet tells me that this is a first-year mixed-gender residence hall.

Kinesiology Building.

I don’t know what this building is used for, but the School of Kinesiology is moving into the Natural Science Building, currently under renovation, in 2020.

The Natural Science Building was originally finished in 1915 and was home to Botany, Geology, Minerology, Zoology, Psychology, and more.

The Henry Frieze Vaughan Public Health Building.

Who was Henry Frieze Vaughan?

An American epidemiologist born in Ann Arbor in 1889 to Dora Catherine Taylor Vaughan and Victor C. Vaughan, M.D., the 4th of 5 children. Thanks Wikipedia.

Hill Auditorium, site of band/orchestra/chorus concerts, with Burton Memorial Tower behind.

The tower contains the Charles Baird Carillon¹, which, despite having over double the number of bells as the Cornell Chimes¹ in McGraw Tower (53 to 21), doesn’t seem to play anything half as recognizable.

¹Carillons have at least 23 bells; chimes have less than 23.

Rackham Building.

Rackham is the graduate school that generally oversees the masters/PhD programs.

Everything else² was under construction.

²Not really. Everything else was either under construction, I couldn’t get a good, unimpeded head-on view of the building, the building looked boring, or I didn’t take a picture of that building for any one of seventeen thousand other reasons.