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Onijunbei
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Figured I would post some theories before bed...
Columbia, U of Penn, Harvard, Transylvania,
Yale, Princeton, Washington and Lee...
This is just seven pictures of seven universities. I think it's enough to get my point across. Out of the dozens that are around I wondered if these are actually old school buildings (pun intended). Why so big? How do you heat these places? Did all the architects go to the same school? Why so quick to establish some of them after a state had just been founded.. like Kentucky, California, and Texas (not necessarily pictured). I could be reaching but maybe many of our university buildings were also around before the new world arrived. If I didn't know these were schools I would be under the impression that they were European castles or government buildings...
Edit.
Was just looking at old post office buildings and could do a whole thread on that...
Also a theory about state capitals and why they became the capital... Because the "capital" buildings were already there...
Columbia, U of Penn, Harvard, Transylvania,
Yale, Princeton, Washington and Lee...
This is just seven pictures of seven universities. I think it's enough to get my point across. Out of the dozens that are around I wondered if these are actually old school buildings (pun intended). Why so big? How do you heat these places? Did all the architects go to the same school? Why so quick to establish some of them after a state had just been founded.. like Kentucky, California, and Texas (not necessarily pictured). I could be reaching but maybe many of our university buildings were also around before the new world arrived. If I didn't know these were schools I would be under the impression that they were European castles or government buildings...
Edit.
Was just looking at old post office buildings and could do a whole thread on that...
Also a theory about state capitals and why they became the capital... Because the "capital" buildings were already there...
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