Townsend Harris Hall (H)

After a multi-year multi-million dollar renovation, which was finally completed in the Spring of 2003, Townsend Harris Hall has finally become the home of the The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.

The building is named for Townsend Harris, the founder of City College, and is usually referred to simply as "Harris Hall." Designed by famed New York architect George B. Post and completed in 1908, Harris Hall is located in the historic Gothic Quadrangle of The City College of New York (CCNY) in northern Manhattan. The Quadrangle was dedicated in May of 1908 at a ceremony at which Mark Twain was the featured speaker.

Above: Harris Hall as seen from "The Quad", the little green square inbetween Compton-Goethals Baskerville and Wingate.

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The renovation of the building's exterior is part of the CCNY Terra Cotta Restoration, one of the largest such projects in North America. In addition to renovating the building's historic facade, which is richly decorated with gargoyles, the Harris Hall construction project also built state-of-the-art electronic teaching capabilities into a number of classrooms, small group seminar rooms and multi-disciplinary teaching laboratories.

Still under construction is a distance-learning conference room, which will enable conferences, meetings and seminars to take place with electronic connection to remote sites, such as hospitals, community health centers or other colleges or universities.