Bowdoin College 1875 Gateway - Brunswick, ME
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neoc1
N 43° 54.528 W 069° 57.829
19T E 422608 N 4862194
A change in the Bowdoin College campus looking east through the 1875 Gateway.
Waymark Code: WMCVM0
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2011
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The Class of 1875 donated a granite gateway to Bowdoin College. The gateway marked the entrance from the street to a path leading to the chapel. It consisted of two granite columns flanked by a pair decorative granite urns on pedestals. Each pedestal has an singe lion head and the columns have two heads on either side of a bronze band that encircles the column. Each lion head is holding a ring in its mouth. An old postcard from 1912 show that the purpose of the ring was to suspend a chain.
Today the Kresge Building which was built in 1975 and houses the Visual Arts Center lies between the gateway and the campus green. A passageway through the building still allows a straight route from the sidewalk to the chapel along a path through the campus green.
Link to public domain 1912 picture: (
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