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

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Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID 11905565 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Eggers & Higgins; Sherwood, Mills & Smith
Title [Proposed] Columbia Gymanisum [in Morningside Park New York N.Y.] : [schematic drawings], 1965
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

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form

Heading "CUL Archives:"
"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
"ArchivedGRID"
Architectural drawings -- American Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading "CUL Archives:"
"Portal"		 "CUL Collections:"
"CLIO"		 "Nat'l / Int'l Archives:"
"ArchivedGRID"
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Columbia University -- Buildings Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Columbia University. Gymnasium Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Gymnasiums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

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.