Photo Friday: O'Shag Hall at Indiana's University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana has some truly beautiful architecture, and the school successfully blends its newer buildings and vintage structures into a harmonious whole.

We wandered into O'Shaughnessy Hall during a recent visit to campus. The building, home to the College of Arts and Letters, looks like many other campus building from the outside, but its Great Hall was a beautiful surprise for us when we walked into the building.

 

 

The building opened in 1953, but the Great Hall looks a bit like a grand castle ballroom from much earlier times with its artwork and stained glass windows depicting ancient liberal arts.

 

 

 

I thought of an of an Austin Powers movie when I heard students' nickname for the building, "O'Shag"! While I doubt Powers ever set foot in the building, many scenes from the movie "Rudy" took place in classrooms at O'Shag.

Want to see this classic film? Score your own copy of Rudy and check out the footage of Notre Dame's campus and O'Shag Hall.

Check out my story from earlier this week, Back to school at Indiana's University of Notre Dame, for a bit about Notre Dame's history and a look at the architecture and art on campus.

Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.

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Comments

[Wanderluster]

These really spectacular photos! It's not easy getting such great shots in building like this - reminds me a trying to photograph in a church.

[Sarah V.]

I love visiting college campuses. Interesting buildings, museums, people-watching...

[Kerry]

good to be reminded of the ancient liberal arts. lovely shots, thank you

[Nicole]

I love the ceilings and the windows above the doors. :-)

[soultravelers3]

Beautiful! You come up with the best surprises!

[Dominique King]

Wanderluster-I wondered how these shots would turn out. Wish I'd been able to get the windows head on, but they were pretty high up in the room.

Sarah-Campuses are good for doing your souvenir shopping, too :lol: We invariably try to find the campus bookstore so we can get at least a T-shirt.

Kerry-The ancient liberal arts theme of the window was one of the things that gave this particular hall a sort of "old world" feel.

Nicole-I only wish I'd been able to really capture what these beautiful windows looked like IRL

Soultravelers-The building was a cool surprise for us when we walked in there. We were looking for the art gallery hours and wanted to get in out of the heat for a few minutes :)