December Challenge: Day 30 ......

Architecture.

For Christmas I received a new laptop from R. And with it came a new version of Photoshop.

While doing a tutorial the other day I noticed that this new version has the ability of merging photos into a panorama. Very cool! I have never put together or posted a panorama before ..... that's R's domain.

With today's challenge topic of architecture I headed toward Lehigh University, which is no more than 10 minutes away from us. The buildings on the campus are just fabulous models of architecture. I shot this panorama in the Linderman Library. There is also a beautiful stained glass dome located in this library, but I will save that for another day.

Lehigh University has many buildings, old and new, on its three campuses. When the university was founded in 1865, it took over several buildings from the surrounding property. One which remains today is Christmas Hall, now part of Christmas-Saucon Hall. Linderman Library (1877) ~ Designed by Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton and built by founder Asa Packer as a memorial to his daughter, Lucy Packer Linderman. The original rotunda is surrounded except on the south by a major addition constructed in 1929 that was designed by Theodore C. Visscher and James L. Burley. The building houses more than 20,000 rare books and volumes related to the humanities and social sciences.