Low Memorial Library
The Low Memorial Library is a building at the center of Columbia University's campus in Upper Manhattan, New York City, U.S. The building, located near 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, was designed by Charles Follen McKim of the firm McKim, Mead & White.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: building on the Columbia University campus
- Address: 535 West 116th Street, NY 10027
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alma Mater and St. Paul’s Chapel.
Alma Mater
Monument
Photo: Beyond My Ken, Public domain.
Alma Mater is a bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French which is located on the steps of the Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
St. Paul’s Chapel
Church
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Paul's Chapel, on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City, is an Episcopal church built in 1903–07 and designed by I.
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
University
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a private, ecumenical, liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City. Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is situated 1,200 feet north of Low Memorial Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Morningside Heights and Manhattan Valley.
Morningside Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: Petri Krohn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Morningside Drive to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west.
Manhattan Valley
Neighborhood
Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood in the northern part of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.
Harlem and Upper Manhattan
Upper Manhattan is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.
Low Memorial Library
- Category: university building
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.80822° or 40° 48′ 30″ northLongitude
-73.96184° or 73° 57′ 43″ westElevation
141 feet (43 metres)Height
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
87G8R25Q+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 274995757OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesGeoNames ID
6342723Wikidata ID
Q6692918
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Low Memorial Library” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Low Memorial Library”
- Chinese: “勞紀念圖書館”
- French: “Bibliothèque Low Memorial”
- Italian: “Low Memorial Library”
- Japanese: “ロー記念図書館”
- Japanese: “ロウ記念ホール”
- Japanese: “ロウ記念図書館”
- Spanish: “Biblioteca Low Memorial”
- Yue Chinese: “勞紀念圖書館”
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