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This GigaPan was taken of Keck Hall in mid-January when the students returned from Christmas break. To my eye, it is the best that I have taken and I am very pleased with it. As one can readily see, it was taken late in the aftern...-
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Toggle Minimize gigapan_commentDavid Engle (April 06, 2010, 03:40AM )
Based on the information found here: www.answers.com/topic/w-m-keck-fou ndation
, we
now know that Howard was the son of William and
that based on the above information provided by
santabarbara.gov, Alice [Keck Park] was the sister
of Howard, so there is your connection :)
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (April 05, 2010, 10:44PM )
Well done for finding that out but my question was if there was any relation between Alice Keck Park and the Keck after whom the Rice building is named. Now that you have discovered that AKP's father founded Standard Oil and even with my limited knowlegde of the US I know that Houston is big on oil, can we establish a connection between the tow families?
David Engle (April 05, 2010, 03:38PM )
Kilgore, the following should now answer your question (the info came from santabarbara.gov): Alice Keck Park was one of six children of William Myron Keck and Alice Bertha Keck. her father founded Superior Oil and the family lived in Pasadena. At age 35, she married David Edgar Park.
David Engle (March 28, 2010, 05:56AM )
She is rather a mysterious person since there is no info that I could find either, but have sent an email requesting information form the Government of Santa Barbara, California. I hope that they respond. An update: Using Google, I found this: www.wmkeck.org/about/AR_03.pdf&nbs p;
and it seems
that Howrad Keck's wife's name was Alice.
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (March 28, 2010, 05:32AM )
No mention of an Alice Keck though as far as I could see. I did google a reference to the lady - she bought the park from a museum apparently. I've sent an email to the person that seemed to know to see if he has any more info.
David Engle (March 27, 2010, 04:55PM )
Interesting question... to answer it, I extracted the following information from this website, natsci.rice.edu/UserEditableConten t.aspx?id=548
: A newly renovated
three-story, 54,000-square-foot Howard Keck Hall
in honor of former chairman and president of the
W. M. Keck Foundation is unveiled and dedicated.
The building had been known as the Old Chemistry
Building and later as Dell Butcher Hall. The grant
to remodel the building totaled $14 million and
came in the form of a matching grant as part of
Rice’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign,
“Rice: The Next Century.” Information concerning
the keck foundation can be seen here: www.wmkeck.org 
/ which to my eye is
one fine foundation supporting education and
research.
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (March 27, 2010, 01:24PM )
"Keck" seems an unusual name to me and I recently came across this www.gigapan.org/gigapans/11247/ image of Alice Keck Park Park. Any relation?
David Engle (February 18, 2010, 12:35PM )
An interesting story about the brick that was used for the Chemistry Building, renamed Dell Butcher Hall and now, since 2000, named Howard Keck Hall. It was finished in 1925 and the William Ward Watkin was the lead architect working with a Boston architectural firm, Cram and Ferguson. Anyway, to continue the story: The original brick called 'Brady Pink' brick was no longer available because of the early passing (a race car accident) of Sherman Brady and his company had gone defunct., but as the story goes, a foreman of the brickyard was located, and members of Brady's family heled in the effort to bring the brick back into production and after just a few months construction delay, the brick was delivered. It came from Brady Island, an area near the Houston Ship Channel. Although it was originally pink; to my eye, the colored has weathered to more like a light orange, but this is all dependant upon the intensity of sunlight. Note: for those who are interested in the many stories concerning the early history of Rice Institute and later Rice University, I suggest reading two books:Rice University, the Campus Guide by Fox, and the other, William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute by Nicholson where this story was extracted from. Another source of information concerning Howard Keck Hall can be found here: tinyurl.com/ybkvnc3
and especially this
excellent resource: tinyurl.com/KeckHall 
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (February 17, 2010, 11:45AM )
Bath was built using Bath stone (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Stone&n bsp;
);
since all the Rice academic buildings we have seen
in your GigaPans are the same color, is there a
Rice brick?
David Engle (February 14, 2010, 11:13AM )
Payam, thanks for your nice comment. Really, It is good to hear that you are alive and well and all of us are looking forward to your next U/L of GigaPans.
Payam Rahmani (February 14, 2010, 10:27AM )
Well done, David :)
David Engle (February 12, 2010, 03:44AM )
Thanks Tom :) This panorama almost could have been a disaster because when I attempted a robot GigaPan from the Chase Tower (www.gigapan.org/gigapans/34909/ ), there was so much electronic noise, or whatever, that it knocked out the robot and the SX110 camera. The robot recovered, but the camera did not come back 100 percent, and I find it very difficult to establish a locked focus, which was the case as I started taking this GigaPan, but since it was so cold and that Wendy wanted to continue with it, I fiddled with the focus and crossed my fingers hoping that all would go okay. Needless to say, when I first stitched it (www.gigapan.org/gigapans/cdf0706800 10e7a6115e513324d33e3a/), I was most pleased upon seeing the results.
Tom Nelson (February 12, 2010, 02:49AM )
Great work, David! Lots of detail to explore here. Tom
David Engle (February 09, 2010, 08:03AM )
Thanks Kilgore, As I mave mentioned before .... But as always, you have to be at the right place at the right time and have the right equipment and know how to accomplish the task at hand (forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.as p?forum=1010&message=34485729
). I forgot to write
one other very important item ... Luck.
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (February 09, 2010, 07:04AM )
You've caught the light superbly - well done!