Wednesday, March 10, 2010

St. Jo's College

On our road trip to see the Sandhill cranes, we were approaching the city of Rensselaer, Indiana. I saw the spires, or bell towers or whatever they are supposed to be called before I saw anything else. I told Roger he had to stop...when we got there we saw that it was a school of some kind. So, we took a left turn on to the campus, I stopped and got the first two pictures.
We continued on around and found out that it was St. Joseph's College....I had not heard of it before, but I am not likely to forget it now. It is a small college in (around 1000 students) in a small town of 5,000-6000. It is a private, Catholic liberal arts college that was founded in 1889.
This is the front of the church...I have fiddled with it in photoshop trying to get the best photo I could. It was taken in the middle of the day with the sun overhead...that is my excuse. If we were not running to late, due to the fog, I would have stopped on the way home for better photos.

8 comments:

  1. What a beautiful place!
    I just visited your sepia. I think this first shot would work in sepia as well.

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  2. When I first saw the first picture, I wondered if it might either be a county court house or a college building.... SO--I was 'almost' right. What a beautiful building --and you got some great pictures, Rose.

    We're enjoying George's birthday trip.... It's been great. We're going home tomorrow ---so I will have lots of pictures to post...

    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  3. Rose: Great photos from an interesting college, wonderful towers.

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  4. Please - no need to apologize. These are great shots. And it's quite beautiful. Nice sharp and colorful photos!

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  5. I'm glad the towers caught your attention so yo bothered to check out this interesting college. Nice shots with excellent detail and color.

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  6. What a beautiful building. Love your banner...Is it new? or have I just been totally spaced out here.

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  7. Great shots of the towers! Just the sort of thing to catch a photographer's eye :-) Hope you had a great trip!

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  8. The bell towers look so handsome covered in aged copper. What a good-looking college!

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