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When Carleton University heads found out three of the school’s buildings were poised to land on a city heritage register, they couldn’t comprehend how such a thing could happen.

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Dunton Tower, Paterson Hall and the School of Architecture illustrate, according to city heritage staff, some kind of importance to Ottawa’s history.

For the university, the proposal was so bizarre it sent one of its executives to council’s planning committee Tuesday to express the institution’s wonderment.

Darryl Boyce, the assistant vice-president who oversees facilities and planning, said the school was surprised to see the three buildings show up as possible additions to the heritage register, especially since there are already plans for the structures.

Carleton’s 2016 campus master plan talks about replacing Paterson Hall and adding a three-storey podium to Dunton Tower.