College Hall Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/17/2017
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A quick find from the sidewalk with a nice view of one of Smith College's oldest buildings. Hidden in plain sight. Easy find, but may be difficult to retrieve for the vertically challenged. BYOP

College Hall, Smith College’s first building, opened on July 14, 1875. Its dedication ceremony also celebrated the opening of the school and the inauguration of L. Clark Seelye as Smith’s first president. For years, College Hall was the only academic building. It originally comprised of a social hall, an art gallery (one of the first among American colleges), a reading room, a laboratory, seven recitation rooms, and offices for the President and Treasurer. When College Hall could hold the entire student body, it served every purpose other than living accommodations. As the student body grew and College Hall could no longer accommodate its size, more buildings were set aside for the school. The original construction cost $76,000 and began the spring of 1874. The building’s predominant style is Italian Gothic, although the architecture is somewhat eclectic. The outside is comprised of longmeadow brownstone with accents in white stone, copper finials, a French mansard roof, and pointed arches. The building features English Gothic decorative pier buttresses and pointed arches, medieval turrets and niches, classical columns, European quoins and string-courses, Greek fluting, and Palladian windows. A long porch dubbed the “Crystal Palace” wrapped around the laboratory. It was called such because the porch area was enclosed by glass panels. There were some lighting and acoustic problems when College Hall was first built – an issue that was addressed many years later during one of several renovations.

I believe a geocache should either provide a unique experience or bring visitors to an interesting location; or a combination of both. Please see my rating below, an explanation for where and why I placed this cache. I hope you have as much fun searching for it as I did hiding it.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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