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'''Hamilton Court''' was Columbia's first proposed dormitory for the [[Morningside Heights campus]]. President [[Seth Low]] was against establishing a residential college, and dragged his feet when trustees and alumni raised the question of building a dormitory. In [[1896]], Low supported a resolution allowing the University to collect funds for the purchase of land and erection of a building. As that was happening, plans were underway to erect a private dormitory on the east side of [[Amsterdam Avenue]] between 121st and 122nd streets that would be 10 stories high and house 920 students. The plans for the building, to be named after [[Alexander Hamilton]] and funded by a corporation of stockholders who supported the College, were drawn up by the firm of Heins & LaFarge, architect of the [[Cathedral of St. John the Divine]]. However, despite an enthusiastic endorsement from the New York papers, the funds were never raised, and Hamilton Court was never built.

Following the failure of the private project, the [[trustees]] pushed Low into commissioning the [[Grove Dormitories]], but they would also go unbuilt. It wouldn't be until [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] donated [[Hartley Hall]] in [[1903]] that a dormitory would finally get built.

== Source ==
Dolkart, Andrew. ''Morningside Heights'' (1998)

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