Columbia University Walking Tour with Andrew Dolkart Podcast
1) 14-St. Paul's Chapel - Guastavino Tile
St. Paul's church uses Guastavino structural vaulting, a patented system of tiles, created by Spanish builder Rafael Guastavino, who immigrated to the United States in the late nineteenth century.
2) 10-Avery Hall
Avery Hall was designed by McKim Mead & White and is home to the world's greatest architecture library.
3) 02-Low Library - Vestibule
The Low Library vestibule is the grand, high-ceilinged space outside the Visitors Center, decorated with a statue of Athena and other traditional symbols of learning.
4) 21-Conclusion
Visitors with unanswered questions can return to Low Library Visitors Center.
5) 19-Butler Library
Closing off the south end of the campus, Butler Library was designed in the early 1930s and built so as not to obstruct the view of Low library.
6) 18-Hamilton Hall and Journalism Hall
The architecture of Hamilton Hall, the center of undergraduate life on campus, echoes that of Journalism Hall, the home of the second-oldest professional school of journalism in the United States.
7) 17-South Campus
The original design of Columbia did not contain South Campus, but in the early part of the twentieth century when the land was acquired, it became the site of the University's sports fields and dormit...Show More
8) 16-Kent Hall
Kent Hall, originally the home of the law school, contains a library modeled after the library at Trinity College, Cambridge, with a stained-glass image of Justice designed by J. & R. Lamb studios.
9) 15-Buell Hall
Buell Hall is the only building that remains from the nineteenth-century asylum that stood on the site of the Columbia campus.
10) 20-Alfred Lerner Hall
The most recent building on south campus is the student center designed by Bernard Tschumi.
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