Identifier: scenesofmodernne00durs (find matches)
Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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i i h i M l: I a (TNIVERSITY, M orningside Heights, liroadway and Amsterdam Avenue, lh.th to 120th streets. New Yorks foremost educational institutionfounded as Kinds College in 1754, now occupies fifteen college buildings covering 18 acres. The central structure is the Low Memorial Library, erected l>vSeth Low in memory of liis father. Cost $1,000,000. It contains 350,000 volumes. Other buildings are the University Hall, Sehermerhoin Hall (biology) HavermeyerHall chemistry i the 1hysics Ittiilding, Karl, South and Kayerweather Halls, and the Engineering Building, containing the machinery needed in practicalinstruction.
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THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS, University Heights at Sedgwick, Aqueduct and University avenues and East 181st Street. This semi-cir-cular structure, over rm feet long, is a striking feature of the New York University, the library of which institution it half-surrounds. It contains l/iOeight-footpanels which will ultimately be inscribed with the names of departed great Americans. The first five names selected were: Washington, Liucoln, Webster,Franklin and Grant. The building cost $250,000 and was the gift of Miss Helen Gould to the University. THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL MUSEUM, Bronx Park. This Museum contains collections of Economic Botany, showing the process of manufacture and theuses to which the many vegetable products are put, also collections of Scientific Botany, including the splendid Torrey Herbarium deposited by Columbia Uni-versity and valued at $175,000. The conservatories contain thousands of growing plants, shrubs and trees, gathered from all quarters of the globe at

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