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 There has been little space or enthusiasm for further development on the Morningside campus. Notable developments have included the replacement of [[Ferris Booth Hall]] with [[Alfred Lerner Hall]] and the completion of the [[Northwest Science Building]].
-Most recently, the university has been focusing instead on expanding into the [[Manhattanville campus]] instead.
+Most recently, the university has been focusing instead on expanding into yet another new campus, the [[Manhattanville campus]], instead. Unlike in previous years, Columbia would not abandon its existing campus, but would move a number of schools and other functions to the new site.
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-See [[Manhattanville campus]].
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 Morningside Heights was the name given to the area when prominent civic and religious institutions moved here in the 1890s. Morningside Heights, so named because of prominent sunrise on the cliff of [[Morningside Park]], was initially farmland that did not see serious development until the opening of the IRT 1/9 subway station at [[116th Street]] in [[1904]]. The first Columbia institution to open up new quarters was [[Teachers College]] in [[1894]]. [[Barnard College]] and Columbia University (just renamed the previous year from [[Columbia College]]) officially moved in [[1897]].
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+==The move==
 [[Image:49thcampus.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Midtown campus]] ]]
 By the late 1880s, it was clear that the the [[Midtown campus|campus]] at 49th Street and Madison Avenue could not accommodate any more development. Columbia College at that time was crammed into literally one city block - one block downtown from 50th to 49th Street and one block crosstown from Fourth to Madison Avenues. President Barnard's aggressive initiatives to transform Columbia College into a world-class university had forced new construction which could not have even been imagined during the move to the "temporary" site. A Gothic-style six-story library had been built, that also accommodated [[Theodore Dwight]]'s Law School. The School of Mines, formerly assigned an abandoned broom factory, was also the recipient of a new academic facility. Finally, Hamilton Hall, a dormitory complete with statue of [[Alexander Hamilton]] (that stands in front of our present [[Hamilton Hall]]), was erected at the west end of the campus.

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-'''Morningside Heights''' was the name given to the area when prominent civic and religious institutions moved here in the 1890s. Morningside Heights, so named because of prominent sunrise on the cliff of [[Morningside Park]], was initially farmland that did not see serious development until the opening of the IRT 1/9 subway station at [[116th Street]] in [[1904]]. The first Columbia institution to open up new quarters was [[Teachers College]] in [[1894]]. [[Barnard College]] and Columbia University (just renamed the previous year from [[Columbia College]]) officially moved in [[1897]].
+This article covers the '''development of the Morningside Heights campus''' in detail.
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 The [[International Affairs Building]] and the [[Law School]] (now [[Jerome Greene Hall]]) were the first buildings to rise on the area known as [[East Campus]], which the Trustees and the President ignored for the past twenty years. The IAB took in Columbia's expanding [[SIPA|School of International Affairs]], and the Law School finally allowed the Law Faculty to evacuate the crowded and restrictive [[Kent Hall]] for more spacious quarters.
-In the mid-1950s, with the acceleration of the Cold War and the beginning of the space race, the [[SEAS|Engineering School]], restricted for years in [[Mathematics Hall]], was suddenly subjected to new attention both from Low Library and from Washington. To compete with the Soviet Union in technological revolution that was to come, it needed far more space than McKim could have possibly imagined. For some time, it considered relocating to [[Riverside Drive]] and starting a separate complex of buildings. By [[1958]], the proponents of physical compactness won out, and Voorhees, Walker, Smith, & Smith submitted drawings for the [[Mudd|Seeley W. Mudd Engineering Building]]. It was, in the spirit of the 1950s, and like any other engineering built at any other university campus, cold, utilitarian, but extremely functional, and was designed with only two purposes in mind: to create as much lab space to carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible, and to create as much lecture space to train the engineers who would carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible.
+In the mid-1950s, with the acceleration of the Cold War and the beginning of the space race, the [[SEAS|Engineering School]], restricted for years in [[Mathematics Hall]], was suddenly subjected to new attention both from Low Library and from Washington. To compete with the Soviet Union in technological revolution that was to come, it needed far more space than McKim could have possibly imagined. For some time, it considered relocating to [[Riverside Drive]] and starting a separate complex of buildings. By [[1958]], the proponents of physical compactness won out, and Voorhees, Walker, Smith, & Smith submitted drawings for the [[Mudd|Seeley W. Mudd Engineering Building]]. It was, in the spirit of the 1950s, and like any other engineering building at any other university campus, cold, utilitarian, but extremely functional, and was designed with only two purposes in mind: to create as much lab space to carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible, and to create as much lecture space to train the engineers who would carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible.
 Meanwhile, on the south end of campus, the first undergraduate structure to be erected since [[John Jay Hall]] was coming to fruition. It wasn't built, however, out of a desire to house students. Columbia had a somewhat justified reputation as a commuter college, and undergraduates, for the most part, contented themselves with living in the area, off campus (it was not until the late 1980s that Columbia could offer four years' worth of housing to all undergraduates). It was built because Columbia had the good fortune to recieve a donation from the Booth family for a student center at the same time as it was approved to recieve a loan from the Federal Housing and Home Agency for dormitory housing. Thus, Columbia built the [[Carman Hall]]/[[Ferris Booth Hall]] complex, but as a stipulation of the loan to construct Ferris Booth, the FHHA strictly forbade a link between the dorm and the student center, a condition adhered to even today in [[Alfred Lerner Hall]].

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	'''Morningside Heights''' was the name given to the area when prominent civic and religious institutions moved here in the 1890s. Morningside Heights, so named because of prominent sunrise on the cliff of [[Morningside Park]], was initially farmland that did not see serious development until the opening of the IRT 1/9 subway station at [[116th Street]] in [[1904]]. The first Columbia institution to open up new quarters was [[Teachers College]] in [[1894]]. [[Barnard College]] and Columbia University (just renamed the previous year from [[Columbia College]]) officially moved in [[1897]].		'''Morningside Heights''' was the name given to the area when prominent civic and religious institutions moved here in the 1890s. Morningside Heights, so named because of prominent sunrise on the cliff of [[Morningside Park]], was initially farmland that did not see serious development until the opening of the IRT 1/9 subway station at [[116th Street]] in [[1904]]. The first Columbia institution to open up new quarters was [[Teachers College]] in [[1894]]. [[Barnard College]] and Columbia University (just renamed the previous year from [[Columbia College]]) officially moved in [[1897]].

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 The Riverside Park Stadium is, like University Hall, another great missed opportunity that we only recognize with the 20/20 vision that comes with regretful hindsight. But, in those days, the University's priorities clearly lay elsewhere. Instead of the twenty-minute trip to Baker Field and the monolithic eyesore that is Uris Hall, the grandiose yet unrealized plans for improving student life, such as the stadii and buildings that never (or partially) got off the drawing board, are perhaps the most painful reminder of what might have been and the clearest indicator of how different from our present Alma Mater was the Columbia University of yesteryear.
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