I’m not finished with Neil Brennan’s pictures yet. Here’s a set that doesn’t really feature much of the Rice campus but sure does give us a fabulous look around the close environs in the very early 1940s. Mr. Brennan liked to climb up on things, twist around, hang out windows etc. as he framed his images–these seem to have been taken from the top of the Warwick Hotel. (For purposes of comparison here’s a post from several years ago that includes roughly these same views about twenty-five years later. )
This last one is my favorite because in addition to the Museum of Fine Arts we also get a good look at the Plaza Hotel on Montrose where President Lovett lived. It’s on the left:
