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Street by Street:
Columbia University

This university campus should not
be underestimated as a place of
interest. After admiring the archi­
tecture, linger awhile on Columbia’s
central quadrangle in front of the Alma Mater was
Low Library, where you will see the sculpted by Daniel
future leaders of America meeting Chester French in B R O A D W A Y
and mingling between classes. Across 1903 and survived
a bomb blast in
from the campus on both Broadway the 1968 student
and Amsterdam Avenue are the demonstrations.
coffee­houses and cafés where
students engage in lengthy philo­ 116th St/
sophical arguments, debate the Columbia
topics of the day, or simply unwind. University
subway (line 1)
The School of
Journalism is one
of Columbia’s many
McKim, Mead & White
buildings. Founded
in 1912 by publisher
Joseph Pulitzer, it
is the home of
the Pulitzer Prize,
awarded for the
best in letters
and music. 1 1 4 T H S T W 1 1 6 T H S T

Butler Library
3 Low Library is Columbia’s
With its imposing main library.
facade and high
dome, the library
dominates the A M S T E R D A M A V E N U E
main quadrangle.
McKim, Mead & W 1 1 3 T H S T
White designed it
in 1895–7.

1. Columbia University
Columbia’s first buildings were designed by McKim,
Mead & White and built around a central quadrangle.
This view looks across the quad toward Butler Library.

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