> > 3. The chemistry building was built backwards. The main entrance is effectively in an alley, the back doors (which are now facing the street) are used as the main entrance.
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> There was a story at my university that its main lecture building was built backwards on its foundations. True or not, I don't know. Urban legend perhaps?
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> Bea "Urban legend creator" sty

There is a large, two-story house near here that was built over 100 years ago. Back in the 1940's the highway was relocated from the front of the house to the back. (They were straightening a curve.) The owner considered jacking the house up and turning it 180 degrees so that it could still face the road. But then he had a better idea. He removed the front porch, including four two-story white columns, and moved it to the back. Two downstairs bedrooms became the living room and dining room and the old living room and dining room became bedrooms. The study at the front became the kitchen and the kitchen became the study. The second floor and the celler were left as is. Both floors have a long hallway from front to back, so that was no problem, but they did turn the staircase around. The house wound up about 100 yards from the traffic instead of about 50 feet and the house is now on a low hill instead of just slightly above the road. Things tend to work out.
Howard