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Buell Hall. Buell Hall is an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in New York City.Built in 1885 as Macy Villa, it is the oldest building on Columbia's campus, and the last remaining building at Columbia which dates back to the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, on whose grounds the university is now located.
The building was the gift of the John Stewart Kennedy, a former trustee of Columbia College, [1] and is named after Alexander Hamilton, who attended King's College, Columbia's original name. A statue of Hamilton by William Ordway Partridge stands outside the building entrance. Hamilton Hall is the location of the Columbia College administrative ...
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.
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 ...
Low Memorial Library is at the center of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan, New York City. [6] [7] [5] The building's official address is 535 West 116th Street, though the section of 116th Street between Broadway to the west and Amsterdam Avenue to the east is part of the private College Walk. [8]
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.
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.
Hartley Hall was the first official residence hall (or dormitory) constructed on the campus of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, and houses undergraduate students from Columbia College as well as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.