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Posted on 04/11/2010 1:01:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oops. Guess it is the same article.
Here is an excellent article on Free Masonry:
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonic_history_of_the_northwest.htm
Here is an excellent article on Free Masonry:
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonic_history_of_the_northwest.htm
I wonder if any photographs or drawings of the buildings at Jubilee College survive. There’s a state park at the site but I don’t think any of the buildings are still there. If there were Masonic symbols hidden at Jubilee College, that would pretty much clinch the argument.
An absolutely beautiful building.
Color, proportions, trim, windows, especially the window
thing between stories. Love it!
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Yesm agreed, They should go to Glasgow,, Scotland, They would gi nuts. However, they should not use the sacred loo
on the 33rd night of the month.Things could get very dicey in a masonic designed bathroom wutrh all of that magic rolling around the toilet.
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Interesting article. I wonder how much of this is verifiable, and how much is his speculation.
Slightly OT, but on your ping message you have Charlie Brown. Was Shultz a Mason?
Not that I’m aware of. It’s just a nifty gif I snagged off the net.
Sigh. Wait until they find out about the horse, and the electric blanket.
That’s part of the fun! For us anyways. :-P
Catholics were and perhaps are opposed to Freemasonry, but many of their grandest old cathedrals exhibit this same sort of thinking and proportion, and so it's neither surprising nor ironic to find it in a building at a college run by Christians at the time the building was commissioned.
An excellent beginning book on the topic has been out for a while, and should be pretty cheap used on Amazon. That book would be by Jonathan Hale, entitled The Old Way Of Seeing.
The belief that architecture could express Godly qualities and actually protect and/or heal those within is very old and not at all in automatic opposition to Christianity.
The bell tower doesn’t look to have been part of the original design, though. The visual mass does not reside with the massing of the rest of the structure at all. The columns are almost delicate. The only element(s) that echo the rest of the structure would be the Gothic arch, and in the bell tower, they end up with an almost mideastern look and feel. It’s jarring.
Hush! Don’t let out our most sordid secret!
Yes. The ultimate, the squared fart!LOL.
I do think the bell tower was part of the original design; I just don’t see any particular Masonic symbolism. Tudor revival would probably be the best description of the building. Many elements like the ogee curves of the tower have precedent in English architecture. See Hampton Court Palace, http://www.hrp.org.uk/hamptoncourtpalace/ for a good example.
Well, there are a few things I didn’t really get with the article, myself.
What’s so intriguing about having windows on stair landings? They’re not between floors when the landings are at half stories.
It’s a nice old building, but I would have expected something much more distinctive. It looks like any number of public high schools to me.
Well, the high schools that look like this are generally from 1900-1940 in down-market Collegiate Gothic style, in imitation of the great Ivy League schools. Knox College came from a less wealthy time, long before the big schools started pretending that they were in England. Considering that northern European architecture is all very similar, it is quite possible that the model of this school is really Swedish, since it’s by a Swedish immigrant.
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