Edifying Edifices at Northwestern University

Back in the day, I walked across the Northwestern University campus and thought, "God, I'd love to go to school here." The buildings and grounds are almost uniformly gorgeous, whether they're 80, 40, or 2 years old. The NU library now has a cool site on the history of many campus buildings, including the old Patten Gymnasium, the site of the first NCAA basketball tournament in 1939 (no, Duke didn't make the Final Four); the Shakespeare Garden, supposedly the best spot for outdoor trysting on campus; the Technological Institute, the biggest building on campus; and the Lakefill which allowed NU to expand in the only direction it could - east, into Lake Michigan.