The Buildings of Sam Houston State University

Writing on the Wall

2014-04-01T06:00:00.000-05:00

It’s time for yet another look-see around the SHSU campus. We can do it...you can do it, too. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the former buildingshsu masthead? As usual, here is your letter and its haiklu:

Long gone, so long gone
Standing in the shadow, yea
Score 'twixt sun and sun

Writing on the Wall

2014-02-01T01:00:00.000-06:00

It’s time for another look-see around the SHSU campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the former buildingshsu masthead? As usual, here is your letter and its haiklu:

An ingenious man
Whose name I do not recall
Longs for such sweetness

Writing on the Wall

2014-01-01T01:00:00.000-06:00

It’s time for yet another look-see around campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the former buildingshsu masthead? Here’s yet another letter and its haiklu:

One for the money
Prospective students take heed
For wheels hit the road

Writing on the Wall #13

2013-12-01T01:00:00.000-06:00

It’s time for another look-see around campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the former buildingshsu masthead? Here’s another letter and its haiklu:

Be minding one's own
Honoring study, practice
Your answer is key

Writing on the Wall #11

2012-04-01T11:00:00.000-05:00

It’s time for another look-see around campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the former buildingshsu masthead? Here’s this month's letter and its haiklu:

acolyte of history
look on her works, ye preserved
the soldier's footsteps

Writing on the Wall #10

2011-10-01T12:00:00.001-05:00

It’s time for another look-see around campus in our ever-on-going scavenger hunt. Can you identify the building or location where we took the below photo?

Here's your haiklu:

gone not forgotten
seated among wordy memory
time passes for all

Writing on the Wall #9

2011-04-02T03:02:00.005-05:00

Hey. Long time no write. It’s time for another letter in the big buildingshsu scavenger hunt. Can you identify the building or location where we took the below photo? Here’s this month's letter and haiklu:

Their actions are dreams
Exits and their entrances
Where they gape and point

Writing on the Wall #8

2010-11-01T06:00:00.007-05:00

It’s time for another look-see around campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photo for our scavenger hunt?:

And still yet another haiklu:

Never flitting visitors
Holy fields sliced by yon warriors
For those are not eggs

Writing on the Wall #7

2010-07-01T07:07:00.011-05:00

We were way too easy last time so we hope this one makes you think. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photo for our scavenger hunt?:

And yet another haiklu:

Deep frieze around the block
Such a symmetrical splendor
Watch sparks on this board

Writing on the Wall #6

2010-04-01T02:00:00.016-05:00

Once there was this kid who walked into this building to listen to some music. And when he finally came in, he tripped and knocked over the piano. He said that he was sorry for making a flat major. Mmm.... Well, that story might be considered apocryphal (or nonsense), but we do have another letter in our memorizing seek-and-go-find hunt of letters hidden around campus. Our snapshot snippets aren't really hidden, yet can you identify the building or location where we took the photo? Here's the letter and yet another haiklu:

In colored glass
Enough room for principal
one-room crown jewel

Writing on the Wall #5

2010-01-01T11:00:00.011-06:00

Happy New Year! We go for the fifth letter (an E, of course) in our electrifying hide-and-seek game around campus. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photo? Here's the letter and yet another haiklu:

Blue, green not allowed
Yes a privileged place
Hail to the chief's four wheels

Writing on the Wall #4

2009-08-24T01:21:00.006-05:00

SHSU is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year. Sort of.

Forty years ago...back in the summer of ’69...students and faculty had a new abbreviation to recite when they arrived for the fall semester and we’re assuming campus signage got a bit of a face lift, too, what with a sudden excess of the letter C. After four short years as Sam Houston State College, the Huntsville campus would now be known as Sam University State University.

To celebrate, can you identify the building or location where we took the below photo? Think of it as a scavenger hunt.

Just for U, here’s another haiklu:

laughing, talking, here
fine art of gracious living
all in unison

Writing on the Wall celebrates 130

2009-04-21T01:00:00.008-05:00

On April 21, 1879 – 130 years ago today – Sam Houston Normal Institute was officially authorized by Governor Oran Roberts (SHNI opened that October). To celebrate, can you identify the building or location where we took the photo of the number 130 as part of the ~~exciting~~ buildingshsu scavenger hunt:

We were surprised to find during our March 8, 2009 visit to campus that something was now covering the Ø on this building. Bonus points if you can identify what that object is.

(Yes, we know our Texas history – it’s also the 173rd anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto today, too.)

Writing on the Wall #3

2009-03-15T06:50:00.007-05:00

We go for a third letter (thus completing the word “the”) in the ~~big~~ buildingshsu scavenger hunt. Can you identify the building or location where we took the photo:

Here’s another haiklu:

The building of his fancy
Would another name be as sweet
It is (one of) the east

Writing on the Wall #2

2009-02-14T09:50:00.007-06:00

It’s time for another letter in the big buildingshsu scavenger hunt: can you identify the building or location where we took the below photo? Here’s this month's letter and haiklu:

A game of old
Men of spring catch their fever
Observed from the right field

Writing on the Wall #1

2009-01-20T02:00:00.010-06:00

Not too long ago we received an email from a visitor who had enjoyed reading about the history of the buildings, but was a bit miffed at being unable to "find" all the letters from the website’s masthead on campus. We gave her a clue as to where she could find the letter if she wanted to track it down for herself. And that pretty much gave us the idea for this “game.”

Think of it as a scavenger hunt: can you identify the building or location where we took the photos that make up the buildingshsu masthead? How observant are you? How well do you know the SHSU campus? Want to earn the admiration of your friends or family? Want to win absolutely nothing from the buildingshsu webmaster? See if you can figure what writing is on the wall...or some other part of a building (whatever).

Here’s the first letter and your first haiklu:

It’s staring at the sun
Remember one man's ceiling
Another man's floor