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'''[[Havemeyer]] 309''', a grandiose lecture hall, is considered the "signature architectural feature" of Charles Follen McKim's original six building campus. The hall features features a 40-foot domed ceiling, 330 tiered seats, brass railed gallery, and a 40-foot oak demonstration table. It has been featured in over a dozen films, and was the setting for [[Prangstgrüp]]'s famous "Lecture Musical". Undergraduates have been known to sleep through General Chemistry lectures in the gallery of the hall. | '''[[Havemeyer]] 309''', a grandiose lecture hall, is considered the "signature architectural feature" of Charles Follen McKim's original six building campus. The hall features features a 40-foot domed ceiling, 330 tiered seats, brass railed gallery, and a 40-foot oak demonstration table. It has been featured in over a dozen films, and was the setting for [[Prangstgrüp]]'s famous "Lecture Musical". Undergraduates have been known to sleep through General Chemistry lectures in the gallery of the hall. | ||
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| + | The hall has been featured in a variety of movies, including Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Barbra Streisand's A Mirror Has Two Faces, both Ghostbusters films, and, most recently, 2004's Kinsey. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwhzFsuvQc Lecture Musical] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwhzFsuvQc Lecture Musical] | ||
| + | * [http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=110 Campus Corners - The Greatest Lecture Hall EVER (The Bwog)] | ||
[[Category:Rooms on the Morningside Heights campus]] | [[Category:Rooms on the Morningside Heights campus]] | ||
Revision as of 12:59, 1 April 2007
Havemeyer 309, a grandiose lecture hall, is considered the "signature architectural feature" of Charles Follen McKim's original six building campus. The hall features features a 40-foot domed ceiling, 330 tiered seats, brass railed gallery, and a 40-foot oak demonstration table. It has been featured in over a dozen films, and was the setting for Prangstgrüp's famous "Lecture Musical". Undergraduates have been known to sleep through General Chemistry lectures in the gallery of the hall.
The hall has been featured in a variety of movies, including Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Barbra Streisand's A Mirror Has Two Faces, both Ghostbusters films, and, most recently, 2004's Kinsey.
