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West 120th Street & Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: 120th Street (West) - Amsterdam Avenue, 1936

    Manhattan: 120th Street (West) - Amsterdam Avenue

    1936

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Manhattan: 120th Street (West) - Amsterdam Avenue, 1936

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Manhattan: 120th Street (West) - Amsterdam Avenue

1936

West 120th Street, north side, between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway, showing the tower atop Russell Hall as viewed northward from University Hall. This structure, a unit of Teachers College (one of the affiliates of Columbia University) was erected at a cost of over $2,000,000 in 1923 as a memorial to James Earl Russell, the dean here for 25 years. Inside of the tower are book stacks of the Library; the reading rooms occupying the upper floors. The lower stories house the administrative offices. 1936. Walter L. Bogert.

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