and – holy fucking travertine, Batman! Maybe not so quick, then.
Note the sign over the door on the right: “Pangea Cafe.” Oh, yeah, someone knows their geology – or are unbelievably crunchy and versed in ancient Greek. Either one is possible at OSU.
It is with reluctance that we tear ourselves away from this vision in travertine, this contemplation of feet upon the stairs, and head toward our next destination. We cannot help but turn our heads back wistfully one last time.
Soon, though, we will forget all about travertine.
Stop 13: Women’s Building
So in the 1920s, when OSU built a Women’s Building, they went all-out. It’s like John V. Bennes sat down to plan this thing and asked himself how much exotic stone he could stuff into one building. Also, this was in an era when an inscription wasn’t an inscription unless it was faux Roman.
I don’t think this blazing red (akai) monument was part of the original design, but it certainly catches the eye. It looks like granite that’s been swimming in a vat of carminic acid.
But don’t get too caught up in the very red granite. Get inside – there’s another red delight awaiting you, and this one’s gonna make you scream with delight.
We’re nearly at the end now. When you see what Wilkinson Hall has on display, you’re going to start gibbering incoherently. Stock up on absorbent towels and prepare to drool copiously.
I was all blase about the travertine and even the red, red granite, but I believe I gasped audibly when I saw the ammonite. (Ok, and maybe I wasn’t all THAT blase about the staircase… Or the red granite. Fantastic colour, that.)
The red granitic material looks like the town mountain granite of Enchanted Rock, Tx all be it it may indeed redder than the town mountain granite, which is called pink granite in some descriptions.
I had to look up travertine in the Wikipedia; beautiful stone. The article has a great picture of what looks like a Roman-era mortuary temple that once stood near the hotsprings at Hierapolis in Turkey, now almost buried in the stone. If you would be interested in making that lovely picture of staircase public domain, I think the Wikipedia could use an example of travertine used in architecture.
As for the red granite, I believe that is the color referred to as “ruby red granite.” As best as I can tell by looking through online catalogs from suppliers, it comes from India.
I’ve seen stone facades made with fossil limestone before. Incredibly gorgeous, and the sort of wall you can stare at for hours.
The red granite looks very much like this monument in Anglesey. (Although this doesn’t look anything like the local Coedana granite from anything I’ve seen so far, which is greenish.)
I have seen very red granite before, and can find some other examples via search, but none that look quite like this stone. http://www.google.com/search?q=very+red+granite+-redgranite
This bit is insanely red, but I don’t quite trust photographs to be particularly accurate – how they appear depends on far too many factors. http://www.stonecontact.com/stone-Guyana-Red-Granite.htm Then again, I don’t trust non-geological uses of words like ‘granite’ or ‘marble’ (pfft, most “marble” isn’t marble at all).
I have lurked through the whole enjoyable series, but feel moved to comment about that red granite. It seems to contain very little of the black bits (biotite?) normally found in granite.
It looks very similar to the Keeweewanean rhyolite which is found in MN, WI, and MI.
It is red due to iron, multiple bakings, and because its really old. All of the possible sources that have been listed so far are precambrian in age.
I was all blase about the travertine and even the red, red granite, but I believe I gasped audibly when I saw the ammonite. (Ok, and maybe I wasn’t all THAT blase about the staircase… Or the red granite. Fantastic colour, that.)
The red granite looks just like my parents’ grave marker. Can you dye it?
The red granitic material looks like the town mountain granite of Enchanted Rock, Tx all be it it may indeed redder than the town mountain granite, which is called pink granite in some descriptions.
I had to look up travertine in the Wikipedia; beautiful stone. The article has a great picture of what looks like a Roman-era mortuary temple that once stood near the hotsprings at Hierapolis in Turkey, now almost buried in the stone. If you would be interested in making that lovely picture of staircase public domain, I think the Wikipedia could use an example of travertine used in architecture.
As for the red granite, I believe that is the color referred to as “ruby red granite.” As best as I can tell by looking through online catalogs from suppliers, it comes from India.
I’ve seen stone facades made with fossil limestone before. Incredibly gorgeous, and the sort of wall you can stare at for hours.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Square_and_compasses3.JPG
The red granite looks very much like this monument in Anglesey. (Although this doesn’t look anything like the local Coedana granite from anything I’ve seen so far, which is greenish.)
I have seen very red granite before, and can find some other examples via search, but none that look quite like this stone.
http://www.google.com/search?q=very+red+granite+-redgranite
This bit is insanely red, but I don’t quite trust photographs to be particularly accurate – how they appear depends on far too many factors. http://www.stonecontact.com/stone-Guyana-Red-Granite.htm Then again, I don’t trust non-geological uses of words like ‘granite’ or ‘marble’ (pfft, most “marble” isn’t marble at all).
I have lurked through the whole enjoyable series, but feel moved to comment about that red granite. It seems to contain very little of the black bits (biotite?) normally found in granite.
It looks very similar to the Keeweewanean rhyolite which is found in MN, WI, and MI.
It is red due to iron, multiple bakings, and because its really old. All of the possible sources that have been listed so far are precambrian in age.