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Interestingly enough, the building originally housed the [[Physics Department]] before it moved into bigger digs in [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]]. | Interestingly enough, the building originally housed the [[Physics Department]] before it moved into bigger digs in [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]]. | ||
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| + | The Fayerweather ventilation shaft brings air into Fayerweather. It is dark, and there are pieces of dirt in the bottom of it. It is approximately three feet tall. It leads in the direction of the [[Old powerhouse]] out of the bottom Fayerweather, but it could easily go to [[Low Library]] or [[Avery Hall]]. To find the shaft, root around in the Fayerweather basement until you find, in a back corner, an air duct opening that says "DANGER OPEN SHAFT". Inside you will find a pipe leading down. It's a vertical drop down of about 5-7 feet. Once you get down it levels out, and heads out for a long way. Where it goes is anyone's guess, but it does seem to go on for a considerable distance, and it may branch out. A similar, but inaccessible shaft exists in the old mental institution tunnels, which might possibly be part of the same system. | ||
[[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]] | [[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]] | ||
[[Category:History Department]] | [[Category:History Department]] | ||
Revision as of 15:46, 7 March 2008
Fayerweather Hall is an old building that hasn't been renovated in decades. Its vintage interiors, which look and feel exactly like what you'd expect an old Ivy League school academic building to look and feel like, holds captive the History and Sociology Departments. Walking around the sixth floor and looking at the nameplates of world famous historians on office doors is enough to leave most history students awestruck.
It was named after Daniel B. Fayerweather, a wealthy shoe manufacturer who had no connection whatsoever to Columbia, but decided to give a few hundred thousand dollars anyway.
During the 1968 protests Fayerweather was occupied by students. They even held a wedding during the course of the occupation.
Interestingly enough, the building originally housed the Physics Department before it moved into bigger digs in Pupin Physics Laboratories.
Ventilation shaft
The Fayerweather ventilation shaft brings air into Fayerweather. It is dark, and there are pieces of dirt in the bottom of it. It is approximately three feet tall. It leads in the direction of the Old powerhouse out of the bottom Fayerweather, but it could easily go to Low Library or Avery Hall. To find the shaft, root around in the Fayerweather basement until you find, in a back corner, an air duct opening that says "DANGER OPEN SHAFT". Inside you will find a pipe leading down. It's a vertical drop down of about 5-7 feet. Once you get down it levels out, and heads out for a long way. Where it goes is anyone's guess, but it does seem to go on for a considerable distance, and it may branch out. A similar, but inaccessible shaft exists in the old mental institution tunnels, which might possibly be part of the same system.
