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Reminds me of the story about the Yale donor who wanted a cathedral, but Yale wanted a gym, so they built a gym that looked like a cathedral. https://www.gpsmyc
by andrewfong 6y ago
Reminds me of the story about the Yale donor who wanted a cathedral, but Yale wanted a gym, so they built a gym that looked like a cathedral. https://www.gpsmycity.com/attractions/payne-whitney-gymnasium-46130.html https://www.gpsmycity.com/attractions/payne-whitney-gymnasiu...
- HuShifang 6y agoYup. They're really into the medieval aesthetic there -- the Hall of Graduate Studies was built in the 1930s IIRC, and they splashed the stone walls with acid and purposefully cracked some of the stained glass windows to make it all look that much more Oxbridge-y....