At last an update to About The Ridges
But first a link to my About The Ridges Classic
site, that will have the old info while I icorporate it into the new site.
Also, I have my own domain name, squareroot.us so even if I loose my OU webspace, you should always be able to find this page at http://www.squareroot.us/ridges.htm though for now that just redirects you to my oak site.
To start, I'm going to just post some photos. I'll slowly add more text and info to describe them. Then reincorporate the onld info and other stuff I learned about the ridges in my 7 years in Athens. These are photos I took between the spring of 98 (when I put of the original site) to the spring of 2000. They include wanderings around the buildings as well as photos from the upper floors of Lin hall when they opened it to the public one night in winter 2001. They also include one of the times I found a way into the tunnels and the west wing of the main building.
Enjoy!
There used to be a door on the side of cottage R, which is now the Ilgard building. The door doesn't exist anymore; there is some kind of HVAC machinery there and the door is bricked up. But this one time when it was, I found the door unlocked and got into the basement of the cottage.
This is the door from the inside.
After entering the door, this tunnel was in a room to the right.
I went through the tunnel, and came out here, from an opening under the dark tarp on the left.
Some very large and old looking furnaces in the basement.
Door into a room.
Several rooms with childlike paintings on the wall.
Back in cottage R, there was also a space to the left of the door that led to a crawlspace type area with a dirt floor. At the back of this area was what looked like a brick window well like you would have for a basement. I dropped down into it- such that the ledge of the well was about at head level (about 6 feet) in was the start of another tunnel. This one is much older looking, all brick with an arched roof.
The tunnel came to a T and this image looks back toward the well I dropped into from the T. It was almost absolutely dark in there; I set my flashlight down for a minute to take the picture and was a bit freaked out trying to find it again. Even with the flashlight I kept hitting my head on the pipes, because I was looking down trying not to trip- and the floor was muddy.
This is right from the T
This is left from the T. These pictures are from my first time in there, on the second time I entered from beneath the Auditorium- which has wells on its left side similar to the one in the basement of cottage R. The Auditorium is where the left branch of the T went. The right branch enters the main building under the faded tarp on the right- next to where I came out the first time. When entering the tunnel from either end instead of the T in the middle, there are switches that turn on the fluorescent lights running along the tunnel.
You can see a line of dead grass following the path of the first tunnel.
I was also in Lin hall once, when they opened it up.
This exit would have gone into the west wing, were the other photos were taken.
This is looking up into an opening to the ceiling of a closet, and you can see some of the old decorative molding.
Me in the attic of Lin hall.
Stairwell of Lin Hall looking down.
This is behind to the right of the Auditorium; I think it was kind of a manmade waterfall garden-but there was what I think was a baby fox wandering about there.
Headstones in the cemetery arranged in a circle, I'm of the opinion that this was just done as a prank at some time or another. I've never heard any other explanation I give much credit.
When the grounds were larger and SR682 wasn't there the entrance to the Hospital was in a different place, as evidenced by the dead end path. Also notice the very large Ginkgo tree. I've rarely seen one this big. There’s another down off Richland near where Tailgates were held. This is another obvious sign of how the ground used to extend to the Hocking (the old bed).
The spring as it was in 1998. At that time the old greenhouses were still there-behind me to the left I think. I don't have a picture of them, wish I'd taken one.
I guess they started running out of room in the Cemetery before the opened the one Dairy lane. A few headstones where across this little creek. Now there are wooden stairs to get you over there- and the area is more cleaned up.
This one is me trying to be creative- taking a picture looking up with my back against the wall.
The Auditorium.
I view of campus from the Ridges, with crabapples in bloom.
An old carriage step in front of the ridges.
Also, I have my own domain name, squareroot.us so even if I loose my OU webspace, you should always be able to find this page at http://www.squareroot.us/ridges.htm though for now that just redirects you to my oak site.
To start, I'm going to just post some photos. I'll slowly add more text and info to describe them. Then reincorporate the onld info and other stuff I learned about the ridges in my 7 years in Athens. These are photos I took between the spring of 98 (when I put of the original site) to the spring of 2000. They include wanderings around the buildings as well as photos from the upper floors of Lin hall when they opened it to the public one night in winter 2001. They also include one of the times I found a way into the tunnels and the west wing of the main building.
Enjoy!
There used to be a door on the side of cottage R, which is now the Ilgard building. The door doesn't exist anymore; there is some kind of HVAC machinery there and the door is bricked up. But this one time when it was, I found the door unlocked and got into the basement of the cottage.
This is the door from the inside.
After entering the door, this tunnel was in a room to the right.
I went through the tunnel, and came out here, from an opening under the dark tarp on the left.
Some very large and old looking furnaces in the basement.
Door into a room.
Several rooms with childlike paintings on the wall.
Back in cottage R, there was also a space to the left of the door that led to a crawlspace type area with a dirt floor. At the back of this area was what looked like a brick window well like you would have for a basement. I dropped down into it- such that the ledge of the well was about at head level (about 6 feet) in was the start of another tunnel. This one is much older looking, all brick with an arched roof.
The tunnel came to a T and this image looks back toward the well I dropped into from the T. It was almost absolutely dark in there; I set my flashlight down for a minute to take the picture and was a bit freaked out trying to find it again. Even with the flashlight I kept hitting my head on the pipes, because I was looking down trying not to trip- and the floor was muddy.
This is right from the T
This is left from the T. These pictures are from my first time in there, on the second time I entered from beneath the Auditorium- which has wells on its left side similar to the one in the basement of cottage R. The Auditorium is where the left branch of the T went. The right branch enters the main building under the faded tarp on the right- next to where I came out the first time. When entering the tunnel from either end instead of the T in the middle, there are switches that turn on the fluorescent lights running along the tunnel.
You can see a line of dead grass following the path of the first tunnel.
I was also in Lin hall once, when they opened it up.
This exit would have gone into the west wing, were the other photos were taken.
This is looking up into an opening to the ceiling of a closet, and you can see some of the old decorative molding.
Me in the attic of Lin hall.
Stairwell of Lin Hall looking down.
This is behind to the right of the Auditorium; I think it was kind of a manmade waterfall garden-but there was what I think was a baby fox wandering about there.
Headstones in the cemetery arranged in a circle, I'm of the opinion that this was just done as a prank at some time or another. I've never heard any other explanation I give much credit.
When the grounds were larger and SR682 wasn't there the entrance to the Hospital was in a different place, as evidenced by the dead end path. Also notice the very large Ginkgo tree. I've rarely seen one this big. There’s another down off Richland near where Tailgates were held. This is another obvious sign of how the ground used to extend to the Hocking (the old bed).
The spring as it was in 1998. At that time the old greenhouses were still there-behind me to the left I think. I don't have a picture of them, wish I'd taken one.
I guess they started running out of room in the Cemetery before the opened the one Dairy lane. A few headstones where across this little creek. Now there are wooden stairs to get you over there- and the area is more cleaned up.
This one is me trying to be creative- taking a picture looking up with my back against the wall.
The Auditorium.
I view of campus from the Ridges, with crabapples in bloom.
An old carriage step in front of the ridges.
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