Upon return to my old campus, I made several selections for #ThursdayDoors posts. This one is Ball Gymnasium, finished in 1925.
It’s currently where Burris Laboratory School plays. Burris is a K-12 school where Ball State’s teachers-in-training first teach.
#ThursdayDoors is part of an inspired post series run by Norm Frampton. To see other doors of interest, or to share your own, click the link and find the frog.
Now that is an entry. The whole thing is impressive. Imagine if the brass was shined. Hoosieroons?!
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Hoosieroons! I tell you, that’s a weird suffix on an already weird word 😉
Glad you like the doors.
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it has been a few years now that i left Muncie in my rearview mirror…now having some flashbacks. 🙂
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Oh, nice! Did you attend as well? Or visit?
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spent about eight years there working in the nonprofit sector, so i spent some time from time to time on campus working with the faculty and students.
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Groovy! Thanks for sharing that 🙂
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ooo – I love a building that looks like it could be a chess piece! Beauty!
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Lovely find. Gorgeous dark oak and smooth worn brass hardware. Joanne’s right, that central tower does look like it could be a chess piece 😀
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I’m a fan for sure, glad you like it too. Thanks! 🙂
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Those doors look amazing–and so many of them! I can imagine people streaming in and out…great post, Joey.
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Thanks 😀
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Very cool photos, I love going back to campus. And that gymnasium name…works with both capital and small “B”.
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Hehe! I never thought of that!
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I look forward to this spot every week. You always share the coolest things. I think Hoosieroons is a great team name and they should have kept it.
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Well that’s good to know, thanks 🙂
I’m not a fan of Hoosieroons. We say Chirp Chirp cause we’re Cardinals, what would we say if we were Hoosieroons? 😛 Can you imagine? *bets you can*
I’m glad you like them.
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Beautiful series of doors! Love the combination of wood with metal. Seeing back one’s “old” school, my mind gets flooded with memories. Do you have that?
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Yes! So much! I was back twice this summer, and it was nostalgic as all get out 😀 Glad you like these doors.
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They don’t make doors like that for schools anymore, that’s for sure. You’re brave – I hate returning to schools that I attended – except the university.
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Well, Ball State was my university 🙂 Also, my daughters attend schools I went to, so no worries for me.
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Great set of doors! 🙂
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What great doors!!
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Thanks so much! I’m sorry I’m just now seeing this — You were in my spam!
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You know, every once in a while someone gets in my spam too who is definitely not spam! I’ve started checking there more often instead of just deleting automatically.
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I should look at mine every day. I suspect I have gone into a lot of spam folders TODAY! Quirky stuff sometimes.
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Like how you present the photos from macro to closeup on the detail.
Do I assume correctly that you passed through these doors in your first year as teacher-in-training?
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Well, no, not exactly. This is a gym on Ball State’s campus, so I’ve been in there to walk the track with friends, but I never went to the gym as a teacher with students. Burris Laboratory school is another place entirely, but their sporting events are held at Ball Gym.Two separate places. But yes, I did teach at Burris several times, we all did 🙂
I’m sorry if I didn’t make that clear. People are always asking what the building does now, so I wanted to include that.
(Cause Ball State has a multi-million dollar arena now, and the Cardinals don’t play in Ball gym anymore.)
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That’s a great old building! it reminds me of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. It’s the same era. The library was finished in 1930.
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Nice! You’re the second person to say this building evoked a memory of another 🙂
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I love that style. Is it Gothic?
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No, it’s Beaux-Arts 🙂
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Something new to learn. I didn’t know of it.
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I’m gonna vent on your page cause Joey understands. WordPress is making me login to EVERY site I visit before I can like the post. Then, it’s making me login AGAIN and enter name, email and blog site EVERY time I want to comment !!! 😡😤
Ok, back to you. I love that building and those doors! I can picture a mob of kids blowing through them. I can slmost hear it.
This was a great Doors post.
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Oh dang! I’m so sorry. The Mister has that experience QUITE often, and he does get ranty about it.
I have been having to do that at Marian’s for so long. No autofill working, either. How awful is it that I sometimes skip commenting just so I won’t have to fill out three fields and click a box? Terrible.
I’m glad you like the doors 🙂
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I love the doors! I did skip commenting on a couple blogs. I felt bad, but some asked for a third login. I gave up.
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I understand.
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Beautiful building and beautiful doors. Buildings like that do my spirits well. What will happen when most of them are gone :(?
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May they never! Ball State University has an incredible architecture program, and these things are prized. Going away isn’t likely to happen to such an historical building there 🙂
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So glad to hear that. My school Western Michigan University had the entire original old campus left and they tore most of it down last year. We lost the fight to keep it. So sad.
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Oh, that is VERY sad. Ugh.
Many of BSU’s have had restoration and even interior gutting and overhaul, but their true character stays intact.
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I love that. I wish we had been able to manage that at WMU. It doesn’t even fit with the Kalamazoo image, but I guess it was all about money.
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So sad.
I will say, given the dorm in which I got to see the interior, the renovation resulted in smaller rooms, which is obviously also all about money. I don’t know what it was like for you, if you dormed, but I didn’t sleep three feet from another student. Our room was fairly spacious.
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Oh, that is a shame. Typical, though, because the average apartment size has gotten smaller as houses have gotten bigger! I lasted one night with a roommate at the dorm. She moved in ahead of me, and the window sill was already completely lined with cigarette butts. I applied for a private room the next day. It was a real shame because it isolated me too much, but I couldn’t have lived with that girl.
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OH MY.
I took the single room for 5 semesters myself. I didn’t feel isolated, or I’m too introverted to care. I had QUITE the rotation of roommates before that. Oh the stories I could tell. Ugh. So drama. I only had one I really, really liked and she ran off to get married. *sigh*
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You drove her off? hahaha, just kidding. I think it was that I had the single room after one day on campus. I hadn’t met a soul. And then I had to pay for the dorm myself and ran out of money after one semester and had to move home. So then I “ran off” and got married next year.
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Ah. I had to pay the difference between single and double room costs, but I felt good about it. Money well spent for me.
I did know people by then. Had established friends by then.
That girl kinda ruined your welcome.
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Yes, exactly!
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I love these solid doors and the huge archway too!
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Wow! I like details in the stonework. The doors are awesome. I love that the hardware is so well worn. 🙂
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A gym that looks like a castle, that’s so cool, Joey. 🙂
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LOVE the Burris Lab building! It’s like a freakin’ CASTLE!
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No no! That’s the GYM! Burris lab not featured! But gym thanks you 😀
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Those are some impressive and gorgeous doors! I love the whole building actually.
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I’m glad 🙂
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This was so fascinating to me! So the education department uses this building for their practicing teaching? It’s almost midnight so if I have this wrong ignore my comments.
Lucky Ball State education students!!
This is a gorgeous building, really heavy duty wooden doors with beautifully aged brass bar handles and the arched area with Windows above these doors is a great “cherry on top” detail.
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