13.12.12

TODAY'S QUIZ

There are so very many things I don't know.  I just found out another of those things this week (I should have been able to put it together years ago, as I was in possession of all the pieces of the puzzle, but sometimes the obvious eludes my Dilettantish brain).

What common thread do Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York share (aside from symmetrical facades?)



The answer is to be found in an upcoming post, if none of you sharp witted folk come up with it before then. There is no prize for correct answers to this quiz, aside from the satisfaction of being smarter than I am.

7 comments:

The Devoted Classicist said...

My guess is that both have some connection with Richard Morris Hunt, Daniel Chester French, and/or Charles McKim.

The Down East Dilettante said...

heheh, nope. That would have been too easy.

The Ancient said...

Too easy...

Anonymous said...

Susan Bliss ?

RPS said...

This is probably not what you had in mind, but it’s interesting that Hubbard Hall houses The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Robert E. Peary died on February 20 (1920), and the Metropolitan Museum was born on February 20 (1872).

The Down East Dilettante said...

Ancient: enlighten us some more. I think

Anonymous: Congratulations, we have a winner!

RPS: Not what I had in mind, but good work---as always I am in awe of your family ability to come up with interesting angles.

The Down East Dilettante said...

PS, the answer post has just gone up.