Hamilton Hall (Columbia University)

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Hamilton Hall is an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University on College Walk (West 116th Street) at 1130 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, serving as the home of Columbia College. It was built in 1905–1907 and was designed by McKim, Mead & White in the Neoclassical style; the building was part of the firm's original master plan for the campus. The building was the gift of the John Stewart Kennedy, a former trustee of Columbia College, and is named after Alexander Hamilton, who attended King's College, Columbia's original name. A statue of Hamilton by William Ordway Partridge stands outside the building entrance. Hamilton Hall is the location of the Columbia College administrative offices.

Hamilton Hall has been occupied at several times by student protest movements at Columbia: it was occupied and renamed Malcolm X Liberation College in honor of Malcolm X in 1968; Mandela Hall for Nelson Mandela in 1985; and Hind's Hall for Hind Rajab in 2024.