Philosophy Hall

Manhattan, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Philosophy Hall stands on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan as one of the original structures designed by the prominent firm McKim, Mead & White. Completed in 1910 and executed in Italian Renaissance Revival style, the building houses the English, Philosophy, and French departments alongside the university's writing center, part of its registrar's office, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student lounge. It gained national significance as the site where Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in the early 1930s, earning its designation as a National Historic Landmark in 2003. The building's storied faculty have included philosophers John Dewey and Ernest Nagel, and literary scholars Edward Said and Lionel Trilling. An original cast of Auguste Rodin's *The Thinker* stands on the lawn before the hall, which is among only a handful of buildings on campus named for an academic discipline rather than an individual.

Architect

McKim, Mead & White

Movement

Mediterranean Revival architecture Renaissance Revival architecture

Type: university building
Heritage: New York State Register of Historic Places listed place, National Register of Historic Places listed place
Place: Manhattan, United States

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