Brick buildings of Georgian or Victorian architecture, a theater for performing arts, communal greens, a bell tower and clock.
Many schools anchor small towns.
The University of Maryland's solution has been to adopt what lies around it and put every inch to use. For a bell tower the Bromo Seltzer building marks time in blue neon two blocks from the eastern edge of campus. Many are on the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Register of Historic Places or documented by the Maryland Historical Trust. The oldest University building on the register is Davidge Hall, built in 1812. Modeled after Rome's Pantheon, its columns, wide gable, and dome bestowed a measure of classical credibility on the revolutionary practice of teaching medicine through dissection.