Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Day 4 - University Hall

University of Toledo – University Hall

January 15th – January 22th
7 days of Field trip – day 4

University of Toledo’s famous building, University Hall.
And visiting newest building and introducing what and where is about.
Walking in those buildings makes me feel like I went back in time to 1870s.

Great buildings with so many details still live.
Even with stairs and classroom.
There is still small things that we can’t recognize.

Today, I will try to explain more with pictures







This is actually the main entrance,
 however people does not use this door often, because all other buildings are there beyond University Hall



It should have been all classrooms and lockers for students. But now its for storage and classrooms are becoming more offices and labs.





There is some place like that… I couldn’t enter which was a bit discouraging.


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University Hall has two big trees in inside of the building.
University Hall is shaped like number 8, and each circle has a big tree inside.





If you walk in, which is a second floor.
One of problem with University Hall is there is no elevator connects first floor to sixth floor.
You have to connect second floor to transfer the elevator. The hallway is decorated with pictures of other related colleges.

University Hall is constructed on 1931, cost was 2,000,000 dollars.
during construction 400 workers took 11 months to complete it.
one of special thing about university hall is that the building was used 50,000 tons of limestone to complete the 63 foot tall building and its 205 tower.

http://www.math.utoledo.edu/




This is right behind the University Hall, one of problem with this location is there isn’t much chair to sit on.



This is Student Union, where Offices, Dining hall, Orientation, and Cafeteria are located in



Dining is opened from 7 a.m to until 8 p.m. and normally foods seem to be similar everyday.







Besides Dining hall, there is Food Court where anyone can freely buy.
the maing problem with this cafeteria is that it is not open on weekends.
and also even on friday, some of stores close early.
it is because the dining hall in Student Union close early.

Well, lets head back to University hall since we got our suffer

If you walk out one of Univeristy hall ‘s the door, it leads to newest building, Stranahan Hall





This is only spot that floor blooms during spring.
With Toledo’s weather, it is not easy to see flowers a lot.
But this place has water fountain and located under the trees, which makes great place to rest during summer as well.




This building is mainly for business major students and since this building has quite a distance from Student Union where we can food and drinks, this building has its own store.






 As we go up to this building there is a big resting place which is open for anyone and actually very cool when spring and summer comes.
All those grass will turn green and blooms. Once plants are there, it will make a great place for rest.


Well, I caught cold. This is not good ^^*






2 comments:

  1. Jake--

    To incorportate some research, you might investigate how Great Depression relief programs led to the appearance of some of our older campus buidlings, not to mention those college seal paintings on the 3rd floor of UH.

    These buidlings represent an architectural style known as "collegiate gothic"--you might look into a little history of that. At any rate, you need to place your observations in a broader historical/textual context. To qualify for the portfolio, blogs need to engage other writing.

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  2. other writings.. hmmm I am finding it quite difficult, I tried to put publications as well.

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