Tour of the Historic Buildings of URI
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My name is Patrick on today, when I take you on a tour of the historic district of your eye. Before we do that, we're gonna look at the old Ben Butler Cannon that's on the southwest side of your eye quadrangle. So this is the old butler Civil War, and I was brought here a long time. Like I said, this isn't the original Civil War cannon the original civil work in and was placed in Kentucky Museum sometime the eighteen hundreds. This radicals creating eighteen's of seawater, you have resided on Union Civil War airship in Newport before it was brought here to the euro. Quat, originally named after Benjamin have Butler, came in the South Carolinian, Russian, his friend Captain George and Canyon brought the cannon and named it after him. In honor of this election, the broken barrels due to a long night of drunken celebration of the second moral act of not eighteen nineties you, which gave the school must change funds and also change the name of the state agricultural school to the right out of college. That's place on the quad. Now we're gonna go over to the Ranger home. So this is right behind my share of places because his parents school communications that film was that it has the most technological man, some handsome sweet netting labs, a bunch of stuff that loved, and we're gonna go inside. Amazingly enough, Ranger Hall was originally built as the science hall in nineteen fourteen as a home tall sciences, too much political opposition before signs was studying and crumbling shacks near the woods. Rachel is bills with campus quarry with granite in a state of the art heating system, which connected to the main power house by an underground trench that runs with the quad. Building was her name's Ranger hall after Walter, a Ranger, a strong advocate for the building and later chairman of College Board of trustees. The building received just six hundred thousand renovation in nineteen fifty to improve the interior space, and in twenty fifteen arranger Hall was stuffed with state of the art technology and software that makes it what is today the home of the Harrington School of Communication Media. It houses a lover rooms on the first floor, including classrooms adding sweets, recording, studio screaming, social innovation lab, I mean economists, a resource center and a large living room was three TVs that stream the news regularly. Rangers, second, third and fourth floors are closed until they get renovated. So now behind me, is that tall? This is currently Peter harmonies also over, but this is probably most of the campus. Edwards Hall was built in open in nineteen twenty with somewhere materials early buildings on campus like Ranger, which had also looks centralised too, as well. Initially, how's the small campus library? A seminar room, A large central reading room in a large eyes holding the SAT one thousand nine people. It was your eyes home for the Fear department was the place to go to sea, popular movies and popular place. The theater department moved to the Fine Arts Center, and Edwards was redesigned as a large lecture halls. While is a public facility for many performances and shows. The Conte murals were uncovered in twenty ten during a one point five million dollars renovation and were removed in. The story is part of the new look of the building, which is it is what it looks like, all right now. Behind Washington Home one, not Washburn Hole was originally in Nazar Kosher Hall, which was built to centralize the studies. Animal husbandry, our Culture, daring and horticulture. Washburn opened in nineteen twenty one, had a more simplistic design. One special aspect of Washburn is Lindows, their enhanced by deep plaster ball recesses. You saw was named for its location on the quadrangle and was completed nineteen o nine as a men's dormitory there by solving a housing crisis that was rapid on the campus. It was the first of the late Georgian south buildings, with its arch windows on the first floor and edging of brick trip original plans for a building. We're next because people said the rooms were too small. Renovations of you solve reduce rises to sixty three, and after it was used for housing, he's tall, became the homes of the physics department, and that's where it is day. Let's go down the Olympics for one last final tour and lasting Tory's lived at home, probably one most hunted in historical places. Let's go inside job on our final South. The tour let the hole was open in eighteen ninety seven and filled the need for a drill hall in gymnasium facility as well as the library for your eyes. Growing number of books was built with locally found granite. Charles W. Limpet love its architectural styles. He knew to the campus with suitors style and it houses chapel Well, it was a central gathering place for the campus and in nineteen thirty five recitations put in a student center with the dying facility on the upper floor in a sandwich and soda shop in the basement. Then it was a place with a missile for the military. During World War two September tenth, two thousand nine fourteen, Philip Groans Ghostwriter was commissioned. Installed a lip it as part of the states one percent Public arts program. Torch in three, as it's known today, was designed and fabricated by James Sound.