The catacombs, California Baptist University

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Tunnels run under the old mission style buildings on this Riverside campus, built so staff could get in and out once the doors were locked for the night.

The mission style buildings on the California Baptist campus at Riverside are older than the university, and beneath them is a network of tunnels.

The purpose of those tunnels is the interesting part and it is not disputed: they let staff enter and leave the building after all the doors had been locked for the night. Whatever the institution was, it locked its doors from the outside.

Local account holds that the buildings housed an asylum from the early 1900s through the 1950s. The campus history is more tangled than that and the asylum claim is not well supported, so it belongs in the maybe column rather than the record.

What is certain is the architecture. A four storey building with locked doors and a service tunnel underneath tells you a good deal about how the people inside were expected to behave.

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Hvor ligger The catacombs, California Baptist University?

The catacombs, California Baptist University ligger i California, USA.