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In the late 1980s, Columbia University began to rent office space there, and subsequently bought the building. [10] In 2007, most of the Finance department for the University, including the Student Financial Services department, moved to the Studebaker Building from the historic Kent Hall. [2]
Alfred Lerner Hall is the student center or students' union of Columbia University.It is named for Al Lerner, who financed part of its construction.Situated on the university's historic Morningside Heights campus in New York City, the building, designed by deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi, then dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, opened in ...
An earlier plan for East Campus (1965), by Harrison and Abromowitz architects, included twin concrete slab towers. [2] Along with the rest of the ambitious expansion plans of University President Grayson L. Kirk, it was scrapped in the wake of the 1968 protests against, among other things, a university gym proposed for nearby Morningside Park.
Philosophy Hall is a building on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.It houses the English, Philosophy, and French departments, along with the university's writing center, part of its registrar's office, and the student lounge of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The President's House (1862–1897) at Columbia's midtown campus. At Columbia's midtown campus, where it was located from 1857 to 1897, a house for the president was built in 1862 near the corner of 49th Street and Fourth Avenue (later Park Avenue). It served as the home of both Charles King and Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. It was the ...
Schermerhorn Hall (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɛrmərˌɦɔr(ə)n]) is an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University located at 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, United States. Schermerhorn was built in 1897 with a $300,000 gift from alumnus and trustee William Colford Schermerhorn.
Carman Hall is a dormitory located on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and currently houses first-year students from Columbia College as well as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. [1]
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, [8] is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan , it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States .