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[[Image:MatthewsHall1.png|thumb|240px|Brander Matthews Hall with Wien Hall in the background]] | [[Image:MatthewsHall1.png|thumb|240px|Brander Matthews Hall with Wien Hall in the background]] | ||
[[Image:MatthewsHall.jpg|thumb|The entrance to Brander Matthews Hall]] | [[Image:MatthewsHall.jpg|thumb|The entrance to Brander Matthews Hall]] | ||
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'''Brander Matthews Hall''' was built in [[1940]] at 117th St and [[Amsterdam Avenue]] to a design by Eggers and Higgens, and named for famed drama scholar [[Brander Matthews]]<ref>http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/brander_matthews.html</ref>. It housed the famous [[Columbia Opera Workshop]], a theater with just under 300 seats, and a bust of Matthews in the entrance. The building was razed only 18 years later, in [[1958]], to make way for [[Jerome Greene Hall]]. The bust now sits in Dean [[Austin Quigley]]'s office. | '''Brander Matthews Hall''' was built in [[1940]] at 117th St and [[Amsterdam Avenue]] to a design by Eggers and Higgens, and named for famed drama scholar [[Brander Matthews]]<ref>http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/brander_matthews.html</ref>. It housed the famous [[Columbia Opera Workshop]], a theater with just under 300 seats, and a bust of Matthews in the entrance. The building was razed only 18 years later, in [[1958]], to make way for [[Jerome Greene Hall]]. The bust now sits in Dean [[Austin Quigley]]'s office. | ||
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070308183916/http://www.usoperaweb.com/2002/september/columbia.htm Columbia University, the Columbia Opera Workshop and the Efflorescence of American Opera in the 1940s and 1950s Part I] | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20070308183916/http://www.usoperaweb.com/2002/september/columbia.htm Columbia University, the Columbia Opera Workshop and the Efflorescence of American Opera in the 1940s and 1950s Part I] | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:11, 22 November 2012
Brander Matthews Hall was built in 1940 at 117th St and Amsterdam Avenue to a design by Eggers and Higgens, and named for famed drama scholar Brander Matthews[1]. It housed the famous Columbia Opera Workshop, a theater with just under 300 seats, and a bust of Matthews in the entrance. The building was razed only 18 years later, in 1958, to make way for Jerome Greene Hall. The bust now sits in Dean Austin Quigley's office.
