Buildings & Grounds, 1947 - 1962
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1951 |
January 22 -- Efforts to buy 119th Street begin |
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1951 |
December 6 -- Board of Estimates Plan adopt plan to sell 119th street to
Barnard |
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1952 |
First floor plan is submitted for theater reconstruction of old Brinckerhoff
theater |
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1952 |
April 10 -- 119th street closed to public, temporarily used for faculty parking |
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1952 |
May 1 -- ceremony for the closing of 119th street |
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1953 |
Barnard is still overflowing |
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1953 |
Class of 1903 gives new seminar room on 4th Floor of Barnard Hall |
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1953 |
May -- Renovation on Milbank Hall begins |
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1954 |
Wednesday, January 26 -- James Room opens as student social center |
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1954 |
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. pressures Barnard to sell land west of campus after
failed attempt to raise funds for new building. He builds Interchurch Center |
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1954 |
Minor Latham Playhouse is built |
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1954 |
Fall -- Barnard conducts self-evaluation and determines its overall needs |
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1958 |
April 28 -- Lehman Hall groundbreaking |
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1960 |
April 5 -- Dedication of Lehman Hall |
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1960 |
Construction on a new dormitory begins |
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1961 |
Reid Hall is complete |
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1962 |
April 10 -- Dedication of Reid Hall, named for Helen Rogers Reid |