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A list of significant buildings and facilities, existing or demolished, owned by or closely associated with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.Several buildings were on the National Register of Historic Places, including Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, Computing and Communications Center (formerly Comstock Hall), East Roberts Hall (demolished), Fernow Hall, Morrill Hall, Rice Hall, Roberts ...
The enabling legislation creating the college also provided funds for a veterinary building at Cornell. The building opened in the fall of 1896, and is now a portion of Ives Hall. A new veterinary complex for Cornell and the college was created in 1957 at the east end of Tower Road. The main building is named Schurman Hall. Today, this complex ...
Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing; Computing and Communications Center, Cornell University; Comstock Hall (Ithaca, New York) Cornell Fine Arts Library; D.
In 1918, recently widowed, Dorothy Whitney Straight met a Cornell Agriculture student, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, who persuaded her to visit the campus.Elmhirst and Straight together with certain faculty members decided that the best realization of Willard Straight's wish that some of his estate be used to make Cornell a more "human place" was to build a student union building.
The alumni affairs office and Cornell Alumni Association remained until 2010, when the remaining staff were moved to offices in downtown Ithaca, and the building became home to several student programs, including the Office of Minority Educational Affairs (OMEA), which had been in Barnes Hall; the Asian/Asian American Center and the African ...
Cornell West Campus as seen from McGraw Tower in May 2013 The War Memorial seen from a distance. West Campus is a residential section of Cornell University main campus in Ithaca, New York. It is bounded roughly by Fall Creek gorge to the north, West Avenue and Libe Slope to the east, Cascadilla gorge and the Ithaca City Cemetery to the south ...
According to Cornell University Professor Kermit Parsons, Ezra Cornell's tastes were plain in most respects. and Llenroc was “his only architectural extravagance." [11] Ezra’s son Alonzo Cornell, the Governor of New York from 1880 to 1882, wrote in his 1884 biography of Ezra Cornell that, "with his exceptional prosperity came the ambition to build a dwelling which should be an ornament to ...
It houses the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. The house was commissioned in 1871 by Andrew Dickson White , co-founder and first president of the university. The house is richly decorated with stone carvings according to White's tastes, intended to remind students of men's accomplishments and inspire them to higher purpose and an ...