[Proposed] Columbia Gymanisum [in Morningside Park New York N.Y.] : [schematic drawings], 1965

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:
11905565 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Eggers & Higgins; Sherwood, Mills & Smith
Repository:
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Physical Description:
16 Sheets
Language(s):
English .
Access:

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Description

Publication Date

1965

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Transfered from Oberlin College Archives (2016.005).

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Biographical / Historical

A new gym had been in the planning stages since 1959, but had been delayed repeatedly by financial challenges. By the mid 1960s, the University hired the architectural firm Eggers & Higgens to design a gym in city-owned Morningside Park. The plan created increasingly negative feelings among government officials, community groups, and students. Many students were offended by the design, as it provided access for the University community at the higher level of the building while residents of the surrounding Harlem community would enter on the lower level. This was perceived as obvious inequity and prompted cries of segregation.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Architectural drawings -- American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Columbia University -- Buildings CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Columbia University. Gymnasium CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gymnasiums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID