From Modest to Magnificent

Ask Barbara S. Christen for a tour of some of the historic campuses included in the database she is assembling, and you get a two-day extravaganza of campus preservation: Five small North Carolina colleges that together boast three Carnegie libraries, three literary-society halls, countless Doric columns, a grotto, a former power plant that now houses a campus ministry, and a 1785 meat cellar complete with hooks. Also — although they are not in Ms. Christen's database —

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