a mystery

[annathyst]

Why is this here?



(poor picture quality courtesy of my cameraphone)
It's a door (or perhaps a very large window) in the side of the library here at SRC. It goes, literally, nowhere - it's about a story above local ground level. Is it a very large window? A door to a balcony that never got installed? Just an architectural quirk?

Comments

[chemicallace]

It might be worth asking someone on the Reflector -- I never really thought about how it was since I rarely saw it open and just presumed it didn't open for a very long time.

[myth.livejournal.com]

If you go through, bring back some Turkish delight for me, will you?

[amberbeads.livejournal.com]

at RIT, before it was renovated, ellingson lounges had old balcony doors that were glued shut. the whole story of someone jumping off a balcony tied between two mattresses is supposedly the reason they got rid of balconies.

we actually got our door open my first year. on the 11th floor. leading straight down. great idea, huh?

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

Maybe the library was designed by Sarah Winchester.

[yellowpigs.livejournal.com]

My memory is too fuzzy to figure out what angle you took the picture at, but until the library was renovated over the summer of 1998, the library only covered the west half of the library (that is, the half closest to the college center). The other half was the science labs (which explains why if you poke around near the periodicals storage in the basement of the library you'll see some rooms that probably still have old lab equipment), and the front desk area didn't exist; that was a walkway between the two buildings.

[chezmax]

I rather enjoy pictures of Doors to Nowhere. There's surprisingly a lot of them around.

[neuromantic.livejournal.com]

The best guess I can make is that there used to be a deck there, and that's why there's a sliding door. Alternatively, they might have just thought it'd be cool to have such a huge window to get ridiculous airflow. I found it very nice when that used to be my study-spot in Fall of 2002.