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Ta-DAAAAH! Drink it in for a few moments before closing your mouth and moving on...
This austere heap of stone is Ford Dining Hall, on the campus of Berry College in Rome, GA. It's no longer used as the college dining hall, but is still used for special occasions. Wedding receptions, for instance.
Here's a shot looking up from the door at the magnificent long window in the center of the Hall's face. Quite Gothic!
This is the interior of the Hall. Note the massive oak beams and the long windows: also quite Gothic. Some say Ford Dining Hall resembles a dining hall in this movie; it actually is a dining hall in this movie.
Since I've not been gifted with flight (really!), you may be puzzled by the downward angle of the previous photo. I was not hovering like a wisp of down, however: I was standing on this balcony which overlooks the Hall. The long window you see in the middle is the same long window you saw from the outside.
And, again, that selfsame window, only closer.
This is a different window, however: one of the many windows that stretch from floor to ceiling in two walls flanking the Hall.
This is the ceiling, in all its intricate Gothic glory. Hooray for visible rafters! I felt like I was in the refectory of a Cluniac abbey.
This is the only fly in the otherwise perfect ointment: an immense photographic portrait of Henry Ford, leering down with devil eyes from his perch squarely amidships. Alas, it cannot be removed, for 'twas the eponymous founder's filthy lucre that built Ford Dining Hall.
