Lewisohn Hall is a building on the

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

campus in Manhattan, New York. Completed in 1905, it was designed by Arnold W. Brunner in imitation of the other

McKim, Mead & White McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), ...

buildings on campus, and named after banker and mining magnate

Adolph Lewisohn Adolph Lewisohn (May 27, 1849 – August 17, 1938) was a German Jewish immigrant born in Hamburg who became a New York City investment banker, mining magnate, and philanthropist. He is the namesake of Lewisohn Hall (which formerly housed the Scho ...

. The building currently houses the School of General Studies and School of Professional Studies. The '' Le Marteleur'' was formerly located in front of Lewisohn, when the building housed the

School of Mines A school of mines (or mining school) is an engineering school, often established in the 18th and 19th centuries, that originally focused on mining engineering and applied science. Most have been integrated within larger constructs such as miner ...

; it was relocated to the Mudd Building when the later moved there in the 1960s.

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