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The SLU campus has a wide variety of buildings, including this old Jesuit church, which is now the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.

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Nearby was an interesting, almost Modernist grade school.

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I really like the severe features of this depiction of Christ, on the front facade.

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There’s something weird about the windows on the large windows on the central portion of this building; I suspect they’re not original.

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This house is a survivor; living through the demolitions that swept away its other residential neighbors of the Nineteenth Century.

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Despite all of the demolition, you still do get a sense that SLU is in the center of the city, as these stunning skyscrapers north of campus loom above you.

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What a great ensemble of Early Twentieth Century Eclecticism; the three buildings could inspire future development in the area of so many parking lots.

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The original building, sitting on Lindell, and Grand Boulevards, is still an impressive building that I wish could have inspired more of SLU’s expansions.

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The green copper roofs on this building fit in with SLU’s rebranding back in the 1990′s, but look strange and awkward; it’s still a mediocre building.

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