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Campus Tour · Survey sheet 01

The whole Hill,in 3D.

41.884° N · 71.962° W · 879,974 points

Every point is a real laser return from the 2023 Connecticut survey, coloured by the aerial photograph flown that spring. 5 of the 6 stops are pinned to their own roofs.

The Pomfret School campus and the woods around it, seen from the air to the south-east: a render of the real 2023 LiDAR survey, coloured from the spring 2023 aerial photograph. Fields, roofs and bare April trees; the edges of the surveyed area fade into the page.
  1. 01Clark Memorial ChapelCapilla Conmemorativa Clark
  2. 02School House
  3. 03Centennial GardenJardín del CentenarioNot located: no public source places it
  4. 04Jahn Rink
  5. 05Olmsted Observatory
  6. 06Hard Auditorium
2023 LiDAR + aerial survey · CT State GIS Office

Still image: the 3D view runs only while motion is on.

survey-explorer2023 LiDAR + aerial survey · CT State GIS Office · real data, not AI: every point is a laser return, coloured by the aerial photograph.CT State GIS Office. (2023). 2023 Aerial imagery. Retrieved from https://maps.cteco.uconn.edu/data/flight2023/. Lidar: 2023 Connecticut Statewide Lidar, NOAA Office for Coastal Management Digital Coast, dataset 10296. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0), https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright: building outlines that place the tour-stop pins.

06 stops · EN / ES

Six stops,surveyed.

Choose a stop to read it in English or Spanish, from anywhere or on campus. Each one is placed from an OpenStreetMap building outline checked against the LiDAR returns inside it; one is not placed at all, and says so.

  1. Clark Memorial Chapel

    Capilla Conmemorativa Clark

    The heart of community life at Pomfret since 1910. This is where generations of students have shared their stories through the chapel talk tradition.

    41.8846° N · 71.9627° W
    Roof 202.6 m · OSM way 866772269

  2. School House

    The original academic building, now housing the humanities department. Its walls have witnessed over a century of learning and growth.

    41.8851° N · 71.9634° W
    Roof 205.7 m · OSM way 866772276

  3. Centennial Garden

    Jardín del Centenario

    Created in 1994 to celebrate Pomfret's 100th anniversary. A gathering space designed to reflect the school's evolving identity.

    Not located
    No public source places it yet

  4. Jahn Rink

    More than an athletic facility — a place where teamwork transcends differences and community is forged through shared effort.

    41.8852° N · 71.9715° W
    Roof 141.1 m · OSM way 866772258

  5. Olmsted Observatory

    Connects students to the cosmos and to the universal human experience of wonder, reminding us we all share the same sky.

    41.8840° N · 71.9602° W
    Roof 191.1 m · OSM way 1015123107

  6. Hard Auditorium

    The stage where student performances celebrate diverse cultures, traditions, and artistic expressions from around the world.

    41.8848° N · 71.9635° W
    Roof 199.8 m · OSM way 866772276

Walls and faces

What the surveycannot see.

A survey plane's laser records roofs, treetops and the ground. Walls, porches and doors are only in photographs. For the observatory there is one: Carol M. Highsmith photographed it for the Library of Congress in October 2011. Beside it, an AI model's animation of a photograph from the same visit, labelled as such.

Color photograph of the white-shingled Alumni House Observatory with its silver dome, on a mowed lawn against trees and a clear blue sky. No people visible.
The photograph: unaltered.Carol M. Highsmith — Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith ArchivePD — dedicated by creator
AI-generated atmosphere: the white shingled observatory with its silver dome, animated from a 2011 public-domain photograph.AI-generated atmosphere · not a photograph
observatory-pushAI-animated from a public-domain photograph

From wherever you are

Open a stop for a quick look, a deeper reading, and the next place in the story.

Start with the chapel