Founder’s Hall

Founder's Hall was the first building built on the campus of Rockefeller University at 66th Street and York Avenue, in , . Built between 1903 and 1906, it represents an instance of one of John D.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: university building in Manhattan, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Founders Hall”
  • Address: NY

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Hospital
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is a cancer treatment and research institution in in . MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. is situated 930 feet northwest of Founder’s Hall.

University
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Weill Cornell Medicine, originally Cornell University Medical College, is the medical school of Cornell University, located on the neighborhood of in , New York, United States. is situated 890 feet north of Founder’s Hall.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in , New York City, on 53rd Street between and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. is situated 1¼ miles west of Founder’s Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lenox Hill and Upper East Side.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood on the of in . It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

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Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

Founder’s Hall

Latitude
40.76232° or 40° 45′ 44″ north
Longitude
-73.95515° or 73° 57′ 19″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q26V+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368052582
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5117743
Wiki­data ID
Q5474593
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