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AUB's Main Gate
Introduction
Gates and their significance
Janus: Doors and Passageways: Beginnings, Ends, and Transformations
City Gates: security guardians, openers and other matters
Triumphal arches
1901-1902: Main Gate Building: Planning, Architecture and Function
A Gate House as "the full solution of a troublesome problem"
Main Gate Planning
Main Gate Planning and Funding
The architect: Edward Pearce Casey
Library of Congress: Jefferson Building
The Main Gate Building's Architecture and Material
The Material
Architectural features
architectural features 2
architectural features 3
Initial Functions of the Building
An Administrative and a Reception Building
A security and Control device?
A symbol of the College's Mission and Function?
A Gate that has seen it All! A Witness to AUB's times!
1902-1920
1920s-1930s
1940s-1950s
1940s-50s: Palestine and other events
1960s
1970s
1970s revisited
1980s
1990-1991: A difficult year
1992-2015
1992-2015 B
Main Gate in their Own Words
Initial Functions of the Building
