{"id":2602,"date":"2016-05-25T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","slug":"architectural-model-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/05\/25\/architectural-model-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"architectural model shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tutt Library at Colorado College is undergoing a major renovation right now (in fact, I&#8217;m listening to the sounds of slams and crashes as I type this). Workmen cleaned out our sub-basement and found an old architectural model of our building, probably made in 1980 when the South addition was built.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2613\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/tutt-model.jpg\" alt=\"tutt model\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as we installed the model in our display case, my colleague Sarah Bogard began taking close-up photographs. I think these are lovely, and strangely poetic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2617\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/tutt-model-entrance.jpg\" alt=\"tutt model entrance\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2619\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/tutt-model-side-entrance.jpg\" alt=\"tutt model side entrance\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2616\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/tutt-model-close-up-kick.jpg\" alt=\"tutt model close up kick\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/>We found ourselves placing the little people in various arrangements and playing with the model like a dollhouse. Other colleagues stopped by to see what we were doing and got involved. Someone said this set-up looked like the whomping willow in the Harry Potter books:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2628\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/tutt-model-whomping-willow.jpg\" alt=\"tutt model whomping willow\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An hour or so later, a small Pegasus appeared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2631\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/20160525_160455.jpg\" alt=\"20160525_160455\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1824\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What will happen next?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum, May 26, 2016:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2636\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/20160526_092828.jpg\" alt=\"20160526_092828\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1824\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Addenda, May 31, 2016:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2646\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/20160527_163316.jpg\" alt=\"20160527_163316\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2647\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/penguin.jpg\" alt=\"penguin\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2648\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/dino.jpg\" alt=\"dino\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutt Library at Colorado College is undergoing a major renovation right now (in fact, I&#8217;m listening to the sounds of slams and crashes as I type this). 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