Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. College of Education and Human Development; Educational facilities; Research facilities;
Entrance to the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building (College of Education and Human Development). There are recently planted trees near the entrance, suggesting this image was made soon after the building was completed, in 1981. The...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Domes; Columns; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.);
Front view of Grawemeyer Hall (originally known as the Administration Building) during or soon following construction. There is no grass in front of the building, and here is a ladder and other materials on the landing under the portico. The dome...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Religious facilities; Courtyards;
Interfaith Center's entryway, with a small courtyard. The Interfaith Center was completed in 1974 and there was an unsuccessful attempt in early 1986 to name the (then) Ecumenical Center after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Current uses: Center for...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Baptist Campus Center (University of Louisville); Religious facilities;
Baptist Campus Center, under construction. The building appears to be largely completed, but there are boards set in the ground where the sidewalk would be poured, there is still plastic sheeting up near one side of the building, and there is no...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Student unions; People;
Student Activities Center entrance, with part of the ramp to the second floor; two people stand on the ramp. There is fencing near the walkway in front of what is now the bookstore. This, with the lack of grass in the space in front of the walkway,...
Ad Astra (Sculpture); Public sculpture; Abstract sculpture; University of Louisville--Buildings;
The Research Tower at the Health Science Center rises behind the abstract sculpture, Ad Astra. A portion of the Kornhauser library can be seen on the left side of the image. The Health Science Center was completed in 1970.
University of Louisville--Students; Students; Buses; Bus stops;
Two women and a man holding books wait for an approaching Louisville Transit Co. bus. The covered shelter behind them is probably one of the covered entrances to the tunnel under Eastern Parkway. These shelters and the tunnel were demolished during...
Libraries; University of Louisville--Students; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville--Buildings;
Students work at long tables under the dome in what was is now called Grawemeyer Hall. The card catalog can be seen in the back of the room. The library was moved from Ford Hall into the Administration Building in 1927 and remained there until 1956...
University of Louisville librarian Evelyn Schneider assists Betty Stewart with a Recordak microfilm reader in the Periodical Room of the university library. Schneider served as University Librarian from 1919-1965. She oversaw the construction of...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
“The first part of the project, which began perhaps as early as Augustus, was a grandiose temple to Jupiter; an inscription suggests it was completed by 60 CE. The Jupiter temple is a typical example of the compromise between Greek and Roman...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Architecture; Churches; Cathedrals; Religious facilities; Buildings; Christianity; Architectural elements; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Religious architectural elements; Walls; Roofs; Towers; Spires; Windows; Rose windows; Buttresses;...
"Begun 1163; nave and flying buttresses, 1180-1200?; remodeled after 1225." (Caption, Kleiner, p.486); "The choir and transept were completed by 1182; the nave, by ca. 1225; and the facade not until ca. 1250-1260." (Excerpt,...
