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 === Development ===
-''See [[Development of the Morningside Heights campus]]''
+''See the full article on [[Development of the Morningside Heights campus]]''
 The Morningside Heights campus was built in line with Seth Low's vision of a campus where all disciplines could be taught. It is located in [[Morningside Heights]]. The campus was designed along Beaux-Arts principles by acclaimed architects McKim, Mead, and White and is considered one of their best works. Its original open, urban feel has been somewhat modified by the addition of such buildings as [[Butler Library]], which have served to almost fully enclose its interior open space.

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 === Development ===
-''See [[History of the Morningside Heights campus]]''
+''See [[Development of the Morningside Heights campus]]''
 The Morningside Heights campus was built in line with Seth Low's vision of a campus where all disciplines could be taught. It is located in [[Morningside Heights]]. The campus was designed along Beaux-Arts principles by acclaimed architects McKim, Mead, and White and is considered one of their best works. Its original open, urban feel has been somewhat modified by the addition of such buildings as [[Butler Library]], which have served to almost fully enclose its interior open space.

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 Starting in [[1919]] Columbia started buying up housing stock in the neighborhood for faculty purposes.
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 ''See [[History of the Morningside Heights campus]]''

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 ===Prehistory===
-Prior to becoming the next Columbia campus, Morningside had seen action as a [[Revolutionary War]] battlefield during the [[Battle of Harlem Heights]]. Later, the grounds were site of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]].
+Prior to becoming a Columbia campus, Morningside had seen action as a [[Revolutionary War]] battlefield during the [[Battle of Harlem Heights]]. Later, the grounds were site of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]].
 === Acquisition ===

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 ===Prehistory===
-Prior to becoming the next Columbia campus, Morningside had seen action as a [[Revolutionary War]] battlefield during the [[Battle of Hamilton Heights]]. Later, the grounds were site of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]].
+Prior to becoming the next Columbia campus, Morningside had seen action as a [[Revolutionary War]] battlefield during the [[Battle of Harlem Heights]]. Later, the grounds were site of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]].
 === Acquisition ===

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 In addition to the area above, often referred to as 'the campus', Columbia owns a substantial majority of the buildings in the neighborhood, a number of which are undergraduate residence halls, graduate student apartments, and faculty housing. As a result, much of the immediately surrounding neighborhood is effectively an extension of the [[McKim, Mead, and White]] designed campus.
-== Acquisition ==
+==History==
 Columbia had been looking for more space ever since it decided to move from its original [[Park Place campus]]. The move to midtown was expected to be temporary until a more suitable location was found. In fact, in [[1872]] Columbia took control of the 8 acre [[Wheelock property]] in [[Washington Heights]], but decided in [[1878]] not to move there. Moving on to the [[Upper Estate]] was also considered, but rejected (the rental income was probably too good.)
-With no room left to build on the one-block Midtown campus, [[Seth Low]] organized a [[trustees]] committee on site in [[1891]]. The committee rejected staying in midtown, dispersing the school, or moving to [[Westchester]]. That summer, [[clerk]] of the trustees [[John B. Pine]] suggested the site of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]], which had been up for sale since [[1888]]. Columbia secured an option on 2/3 of the Asylum's property for $2 million.
+With no room left to build on the one-block Midtown campus, [[Seth Low]] organized a [[trustees]] committee on site in [[1891]]. The committee rejected staying in midtown, dispersing the school, or moving to [[Westchester]]. That summer, [[clerk]] of the trustees [[John B. Pine]] suggested the site of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, which had been up for sale since [[1888]]. Columbia secured an option on 2/3 of the Asylum's property for $2 million.
 The initial solicitation of funds from alumni and other person to purchase the campus yielded $427,150. This was probably the first concerted fundraising effort in Columbia history, and it's notable that only $136,150 of the total was raised by alumni, and that number is inflated by [[William C. Schermerhorn]]'s $100,000 gift. Other major donors included J.P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt who each gave gifts of $100,000. Ultimately Columbia used the money from selling the Midtown campus land and a $1 million mortgage to raise the full $2 million.
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 It's also worth noting that Pine's 1892 report also recommended buying up the hospital's land south of 116th Street and west of Broadway, and even suggested leasing a block between 119th and 120th streets west of Broadway to [[Barnard College]].
-While New York Hospital, which owned the 2 blocks directly south of Columbia's campus between Amsterdam and Broadway had granted Columbia use of the empty, Columbia kept an agreement with the hospital for first crack at the land if it ever went on sale. In [[1899]] Columbia offerred $2 million for the land plot, the same amount it had paid for its original lot of twice the size. The hospital countered with $2.6 million and Columbia blinked. In [[1902]] the hospital informed Columbia that it was putting the land on sale for $2.25 million, but the school didn't have the money to make the purchase. President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] rounded up three wealthy supporters of the school to buy land on mortgage and hold on to it while Columbia raised the funds. One year later Columbia was forced to sell off 1 block of the [[Upper Estate]] to finance the purchase.
+While New York Hospital, which owned the two blocks directly south of Columbia's campus between Amsterdam and Broadway had granted Columbia use of the empty, Columbia kept an agreement with the hospital for first crack at the land if it ever went on sale. In [[1899]] Columbia offered $2 million for the land plot, the same amount it had paid for its original lot of twice the size. The hospital countered with $2.6 million and Columbia blinked. In [[1902]] the hospital informed Columbia that it was putting the land on sale for $2.25 million, but the school didn't have the money to make the purchase. President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] rounded up three wealthy supporters of the school to buy land on mortgage and hold on to it while Columbia raised the funds. One year later Columbia was forced to sell off 1 block of the [[Upper Estate]] to finance the purchase.
 In [[1910]] Columbia purchased the first portion of "East Field", the portion of campus that would later be known as East Campus. The 116th Street half of the block between 116th and 117th Amsterdam and Morningside Drive was bought with a $1 million gift from the Vanderbilt family.<ref>Dolkart offers a cited references that the land was bought for $1 million. McCaughey suggests $2 Million and the Vanderbilts as the source.</ref> The northern half of the block, fronting on 117th street, was bought in [[1914]] for $475,000. Sometime later Columbia also bought the block to the north.

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 <gallery>
 Image:campusmap1898.jpg|Morningside Heights campus, 1898
 Image:campusmap1943.jpg|Morningside Heights campus, 1943
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