Buildings & Grounds, 1911 - 1947
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1913 |
Barnard is reported to be overflowing |
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1914 |
Barnard's first greenhouse is built atop Fiske Hall |
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1915 |
Construction of Students' Hall is approved |
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1916 |
Jacob Schiff donates $500,000 towards construction of Students' Hall |
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1916 |
June 7 -- Laying of cornerstone for Students' Hall |
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1917 |
Group of alumnae open cooperative dormitory which is quickly overcrowded |
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1918 |
Barnard Hall's third floor houses the only library |
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1923 |
Barnard begins planning for a camp |
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1924 |
Barnard commissions McKim, Mead & White to design west wing to Brooks Hall
to extend along Claremont Avenue |
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1925 |
October 30 -- Deanery is complete; Dean Gildersleeve resides in the duplex
apartment at the north end of Hewitt Hall for twenty-one years |
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1925 |
November 14 -- Hewitt Hall is built |
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1926 |
Students' Hall is renamed Barnard Hall |
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1926 |
Fundraising begins to support Barnard Camp |
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1926 |
Class of 1916 gives gift of five stone benches in quad |
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1928 |
Barnard builds a new greenhouse, atop Milbank Hall |
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1928 |
$10,000 campaign begins to pay for site and cabin for Barnard Camp |
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1928 |
Class of 1928 gives new seminar room in memory of Harriet Tyng, BC '28 |
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1930 |
Class of 1930 gives 2 benches outside Milbank Hall |
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1933 |
February -- Barnard purchases land for new camp |
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1933 |
October 15 -- Barnard Camp's Grand Opening |
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1935 |
Barnard purchases land between 119th and 120th streets, to west of campus.
Plans for new academic building begin |
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1944 |
Class of 1944 restores front gates in honor of Helen Hartley Jenkins Geer, BC
'15 |