Trip report: Bates, Bowdoin & Colby

arcadia
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:35:02 +0000

The buildings at Middlebury are not “white”–most are gray. That’s the color of locally quarried limestone and granite. The majority of buildings at Middlebury have architectural styles that are consistent with early New England mill structures. Mead chapel is as close to white as you’ll get, and that’s because its facade is entirely dressed in marble.

Most of the New England campuses (Colby, Bates, Dartmouth, Amherst, Bowdoin) are characterized by rows of brick buildings. I found Middlebury’s campus to be a refreshing change. The light-colored, ivy-covered buildings look beautiful when contrasted against the changing fall foliage, and they take on an ethereal appearance when sitting atop the snow covered landscape in winter.