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Location Directions: From Jackson Avenue, turn
onto Sorority Row. Continue straight until the road ends at Student
Union Drive/Grove Loop. Barnard Observatory will be on the corner on
your right. Click here for a
map. Inscription: Barnard Observatory:
Build 1857-1859 by Chancellor F. A. P. Barnard, the Observatory housed the
Physics and Astronomy Department until 1939 and was the home of chancellors
until 1971. The West Wing, called McCain Hall, was used by the NROTC,
1947-89. The Observatory was restored in 1990-92 for the Center for
the Study of Southern Culture.
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