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While the Columbia, Missouri area has topped 100,000 residents, there are very few tall buildings. The twin office buildings of Lewis and Clark Hall are among the tallest. The view from the top floor offers a nice look at the south part of downtown and out across the western part of the main campus of the University of Missouri.
The following images are a composite of several photographs taken with a 35mm camera and a standard 50mm lens. (The pictures were taken one week before the FALL95 image was taken.) The individual images were scanned in and pasted together with Adobe Photoshop. These are rather large images, the smallest is over 2400 pixels wide. Not to worry though, they are less than 600 pixels high and the idea is for you to use a program that lets you scroll side-to-side to view the whole thing. As you might turn your head to take in the view. Web browsers such as Netscape and OS/2 WebExplorer do a fine job of this.
The first image was taken from a balcony on the west side of Lewis Hall. This vantage point gave me a wider view than the windows on the east side allowed. The building is not aligned north and south, so the view from the "west" side is actually looking from Southwest on the left, to Northeast on the right.
Starting at the left edge is a corner of our sister building, Clark Hall. I have a full view of that building from the balcony, but didn't take a picture of it. Just past this is looking toward the mainly residential section of the "old southwest" part of town. Except for downtown and around the shopping malls, most of Columbia is heavily wooded. Much more so than most residents realize, unless they've seen it from the air. The large white house perched on a hilltop among the trees is a fraternity house. The center of the image looks out toward the northwest. The water tower is a long standing landmark in Columbia.
There are exactly four smokestacks in Columbia, three of which belong to the University's power-plant. The University is really a city within a city, providing it's own utilities such as power, phone, and cable-tv... even it's own mail service. The 4th smokestack is the city's powerplant and can be seen way off in the distance on the very right-hand side of the image. Columbia has stayed heavy-industry-free (and will remain so).
The right half of the image looks out over downtown. The tallest building is the old Tiger Hotel and is the brick one near the right edge.
The second image was taken from a window on the east side of Lewis Hall. On the very left edge in the background is a small part of Jesse Hall, which is the main administrative building for the Columbia campus (the University of Missouri is made up of four campuses). The large structure in the foreground is the Turner Avenue Garage. Looking over that, we see part of Ellis Library and the spires sticking up behind that belong to what is called the Memorial Union. Also known as the Student Union, or just the Union. This is one of the older structures on campus and remains a gathering place for students and faculty.
Just to the right and behind the garage is the new Law School building. There is a silver dome that looks like it is attached to this building, but actually it sits on top of the Physics building behind it. The large white building in the foreground is a catholic church known as the Newman Center. The center of the image looks out over the Fraternity and Sorority houses that line Rollins road. The large complex in the background of the right-hand side of the image is the University's teaching hospital.
I hope you enjoyed this view of the campus. I used it mainly as an experiment with pasting images together.
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