Buell Hall
Buell Hall (also known in the past as "Alumni House" and "East Hall", is the only building that dates back to Columbia's predecessor on the site, the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. It used to be the warden's cottage. Buell is better known as "Maison Française" as the French cultural house is the primary occupant of the building, though it shares the building with gallery space for GSAPP and GSAPP's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, which strangely has its office in Avery anyway.
Until 1964, Buell Hall housed the School of General Studies.
Prior to the construction of Kent Hall, Buell actually sat on 116th street. It was physically moved back to make way for the new building.
Buell Hall in its days as Alumni House
Entrance to Buell while it housed GS
