Form and function in no degree quit...

Form and function in no degree quite crossed paths during the drawn out checkered history of Union College's Nott Memorial building, the quirky Gothic centerpiece of the school's Schenectady, NY campus.

on completion of the 16-sided building in 1878, one Union administrator groused, "It is all present to view to catch the vulgar eye" At a newly come rededication of the newly refurbished Nott, historian David McCullough reckonered "But what a show."

For the 117 years in between, no individual knew what to do with it. Envisioned as a central campus rotunda in 1813 the 18000-sqft