University of Chicago (The)
Gothic Campus
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The campus has beautiful Gothic buildings. During the summer months these are covered with Ivy and look beautiful. The campus has many, many coffee shops. The Div School Cafe (where God drinks Coffee) and the Cobb cafe are particularly good. Also, the Seminary Co-op book store is one of the largest collection of (readable) books you will find. The Shoreland, one of the University's dorms, used to be Alcapone's place of residence. The campus also has a couple museums, a few million books, and studends that are always engaged in academic conversation.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Sep 02 2006
Go for the architecture alone. I have visited numerous campuses across the country including Yale, Harvard, MIT, Boston College, Princeton, Rice, Duke and more.....and I think the U of C stands perhaps with Yale and Princeton only as the most beautiful campus in America. It has to be seen to be believed.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on May 31 2006
Visiting U of C is like stepping into an Elizabethan play.Its gothic and tudor architecture transports you into another space and time.Its easy to get spellbound by the beauty of it all.
Reviewed by: CamilleN from on Nov 30 2005
Just look at the photo accompanying this listing. Then go there and stand on that great street, the Midway Plaisance. You'll feel history: Ghosts of a World's Fair and the most Nobel Prize-winning minds in the world! The sheer magnificence of this campus takes my breath away. I love Hyde Park. Not only because most of my family lives there, but because it possesses one of the city's crown jewels of architectural excellence, the University of Chicago. It makes me wish I had chosen college instead of the Army. After your visit to the Museum of Science and Industry or the DuSable Museum of African-American History, please come. You'll love it, too.
Reviewed by: Tina from on Sep 19 2005
The buildings look faboulous. I highly recomend visiting here.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Oct 15 2004
I thought that this was a brilliant place. A lot of nice people and buildings.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Sep 04 2004
I lived in Hyde Park and went to the University and although it is a great University, there is no reason to travel from downtown Chicago to see this part of the city. The only two things worth seeing is the museum of science and industry and the frank lloyd wright building(and only if you love architecture.). Furthermore, the restaurants in this part of Chicago aren't even worth mentioning.
Reviewed by: steve from on Jul 01 2004
Gothic Campus
Back to University of Chicago (The)
The campus has beautiful Gothic buildings. During the summer months these are covered with Ivy and look beautiful. The campus has many, many coffee shops. The Div School Cafe (where God drinks Coffee) and the Cobb cafe are particularly good. Also, the Seminary Co-op book store is one of the largest collection of (readable) books you will find. The Shoreland, one of the University's dorms, used to be Alcapone's place of residence. The campus also has a couple museums, a few million books, and studends that are always engaged in academic conversation.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Sep 02 2006
Go for the architecture alone. I have visited numerous campuses across the country including Yale, Harvard, MIT, Boston College, Princeton, Rice, Duke and more.....and I think the U of C stands perhaps with Yale and Princeton only as the most beautiful campus in America. It has to be seen to be believed.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on May 31 2006
Visiting U of C is like stepping into an Elizabethan play.Its gothic and tudor architecture transports you into another space and time.Its easy to get spellbound by the beauty of it all.
Reviewed by: CamilleN from on Nov 30 2005
Just look at the photo accompanying this listing. Then go there and stand on that great street, the Midway Plaisance. You'll feel history: Ghosts of a World's Fair and the most Nobel Prize-winning minds in the world! The sheer magnificence of this campus takes my breath away. I love Hyde Park. Not only because most of my family lives there, but because it possesses one of the city's crown jewels of architectural excellence, the University of Chicago. It makes me wish I had chosen college instead of the Army. After your visit to the Museum of Science and Industry or the DuSable Museum of African-American History, please come. You'll love it, too.
Reviewed by: Tina from on Sep 19 2005
The buildings look faboulous. I highly recomend visiting here.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Oct 15 2004
I thought that this was a brilliant place. A lot of nice people and buildings.
Reviewed by: A Yahoo! Contributor from on Sep 04 2004
I lived in Hyde Park and went to the University and although it is a great University, there is no reason to travel from downtown Chicago to see this part of the city. The only two things worth seeing is the museum of science and industry and the frank lloyd wright building(and only if you love architecture.). Furthermore, the restaurants in this part of Chicago aren't even worth mentioning.
Reviewed by: steve from on Jul 01 2004
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