Stanford University - California
The campus is spectacularly beautiful and is huge

The tower at Stanford University

Memorial Auditorium

the tour group

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Jordan Hall

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One side of the gate

and the other

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detail of carving - in sandstone

Chapel - design and construction personally supervised by Mrs. Stanford

Chapel (top of gable end)

FAITH Note that this is mosaic art - bits of tile

HOPE - Note scroll work is not symetrical

CHARITY - at edge of building

LOVE - at left edge of building

the virtues - needed 4 so Love and Charity both picured with Faith and Hope in the middle

Mrs. Stanford insisted that the stone carving be cut deep so its effect would last
This is sandstone (not marble)

Inside the chapel, front

chapel ceiling

another tower arch

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a clock tower with more modern design - the works are visible in a glass enclosure

Mural, Mexican theme

J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library

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not just police, Stanford has its own Sheriff force...
It is its own political jurisdiction.

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public message boards - bike racks
some things all campuses have

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some architecure is more modern - Fountains

Our tour guide - Old Union Complex is building behind

Next page - across central California - Yosemite National Park