Columbia University bulletins of information : announcement . The College of Physicians and Surgeons was first situated at 18Robinson Street, from 1807 to 1809. From 1809 to 1813 it was at 12Magazine Street; from 1813 to 1837 at 3 Barclay Street; from 1837to 1856 at 67 Crosby Street, and from 1856 to 1887 at loi East Twenty-third Street. It now occupies a group of buildings given by the lateWilliam H. Vanderbilt, his sons Cornelius, William K., Frederick W.,and George W. Vanderbilt, and Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sloane, whichbuildings stand upon thirty contiguous lots of land, bounded on thesout
Columbia University bulletins of information : announcement . The College of Physicians and Surgeons was first situated at 18Robinson Street, from 1807 to 1809. From 1809 to 1813 it was at 12Magazine Street; from 1813 to 1837 at 3 Barclay Street; from 1837to 1856 at 67 Crosby Street, and from 1856 to 1887 at loi East Twenty-third Street. It now occupies a group of buildings given by the lateWilliam H. Vanderbilt, his sons Cornelius, William K., Frederick W.,and George W. Vanderbilt, and Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sloane, whichbuildings stand upon thirty contiguous lots of land, bounded on thesouth, west, and north by Fifty-ninth Street, Amsterdam Avenue, andSixtieth Street, respectively, and lying immediately opposite the Roose-velt Hospital. The College is readily accessible from all parts ofthe city, and there is little difficulty in reaching the departments ofthe University situated at Morningside Heights and the several hos-pitals where instruction is given. The Fifty-ninth Street crosstown COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS 27 AMSTERDAM AVENUE. COLUMBUS AVENUE 28 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY cars pass the College. The station of the Elevated Railr«ad Com-pany, at the corner of Fifty-ninth Street and Ninth Avenue, is onlyhalf a block distant. One block further east is a subway station atFifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue (Columbus Circle). The buildings comprise the main College buildings, the VanderbiltClinic, and the Sloane Hospital for Women. The main College buildings have been designed to facilitate the com-bination of theoretical instruction with laboratory work, which is essen-tial to a modern scientific training. In these buildings, which havea floor space of 100,000 square feet, are situated the lecture halls, therecitation rooms, and the laboratories, under the supervision of theirrespective professors, all thoroughly equipped for the routine workof the regular classes and for the special original and research workof the advanced students, and officers of the s
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