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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mary Washington.[/quote]

Surprisingly pretty![/quote]

I find smaller schools like Mary Washington often have the most coherent and consistent campuses.  The largest schools have often outgrown or overdeveloped their space and had periods where development greatly outpaced planning.[/quote]

Appreciate that Mary Washington may be more "of a piece" due to not having many new buildings, but the core of the campus, while attractive, isn't one of the most beautiful.  It's a nice looking school with a number of nice Georgian buildings, but if we're being honest you can find that all over the Mid Atlantic and South.  [/quote]

I wasn't putting it forward as the most beautiful, just commenting that it may have a number of advantages on larger schools that may get more notice on this thread.[/quote]

Sure, if you think existing in a time warp because UVA opened up to women really provides a "number of advantages."  When I see a variety of architectural styles at a university, it tells me that it's a dynamic place, not a set piece.  [/quote]

Many universities butchered the "variety" of styles.  They had an original style (classical, gothic, etc.), then moved to modern during a rapid growth period which was to differing degrees a disaster that they are looking to remedy 50 years on.   [/quote]

And some are replacing "bad" modern with nicer modern.

Even so, colleges that basically are a collection of buildings that pre-date the 1960s typically are small LACs that haven't kept up with the times and in many cases will be among the first to close in the coming years as the college-age population declines.  The appeal strikes me as largely superficial because, once you scratch the surface, you find many of the buildings have not been well maintained. [/quote]

There are schools that continued to build but didn't go for bad modern.   [/quote]

Eh, pretty much any major university that expanded after WW II has a clunker or two but it’s again evidence of a school that isn’t some stagnant set piece that peaked in the 1940s or earlier. [/quote]

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