Identifier: historyofcollege00daltuoft (find matches)
Title: History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York (Medical Department of Columbia College)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Dalton, John Call, 1825-1889
Subjects: Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons Medicine -- Study and teaching Medicine -- New York New York) Physicians -- New York New York
Publisher: New York : Published by order of the College
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t on foot for beginning thework of construction, A Building Committee wasappointed from the Board of Trustees, to cooperatewith a committee of the Facuhy and to report uponsuitable architectural plans for a new college build-ing. The matter was at once taken into consideration,and on the eighth of April, 1885, the committee re-ported a general plan, including the location, size,shape, character of construction and approximate costof the new building, with a recommendation that thecellar excavation be proceeded with immediately.The building was to front on Fifty-ninth street, ex-tending thence, across the college grounds, to Six-tieth street. Subsequently the location of the SloaneMaternity I lospital was fixed at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Tenth Avenue, and that of the Van-derbilt Clinic at Tenth Avenue and Sixtieth street ;thus providing ample space for light and air aroundeach building. The college grounds, like most of the land in that t66 THE COLLEGE IN \-uu ti.t-ifl 1 a
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