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[[Image:Dodge.jpg|thumb|300px|Dodge Hall]]
[[Image:DodgeFront.jpg|thumb|300px|Dodge Hall]]

'''Dodge Hall''' is the home of the [[School of the Arts]], the [[Music Department|Department of Music]], and the [[Miller Theatre|Kathyrn Bache Miller Theatre]]. The Columbia GS web page describes Dodge Hall as as having a "great espresso bar", i.e. the [[Blue Java]] location in the lobby.

It also houses the [[Gabe M. Weiner Music and Arts Library]], the Center for Ethnomusicology, the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and [[LeRoy Neiman Gallery|gallery]], the Digital Media Center, and the [[Lifetime Screening Room]].

Dodge was originally built for the [[Columbia Business School|Business School]] with a $700,000 gift from Emerson McMillin, a utilities magnate, in 1919. McMillin had originally pledged $600,000 in stock in 1916, but held off due to WWI. In 1919 he made the transfer along with an extra $100,000 that he decided to let the University keep. The building didn't have a formal name until 1965 when it was renamed in honor of the late [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]]. The only recognition that McMillin took was in the naming the public theater/lecture hall in the building which has since been renamed [[Miller Theater]]. The plaque in the lobby of Miller dating back to it's original dedication and honoring McMillan is still visible.

Incidentally, the construction of Dodge also led to the construction of [[Faculty House]]. In order to build Dodge, the [[Bloomingdale Asylum]] Superintendent's Cottage, which had housed the Men's Faculty Club, had to be demolished. In order to placate the irate faculty, President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] promised them a new toy.

The business school moved into [[Uris Hall]] when it needed more space in the 1960's.

[[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]]