John Jay Hall
Manhattan, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
John Jay Hall is a 15-story dormitory on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan, designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1927. Named after the Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the United States, the building stands at the southeastern corner of the campus where 114th Street meets Amsterdam Avenue. Among the firm's last projects for Columbia, it houses freshman students from Columbia College and the School of Engineering, and contains the university's primary undergraduate dining facility alongside health services and student lounges. The building's layout features primarily single rooms arranged along narrow corridors, distinguishing it from other freshman dormitories on campus. Its notable residents have included Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
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- Type
- university dormitory, multi-story urban building
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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