West 181st Street at University Avenue
Bronx Community College was established in 1957 and moved to its current location in 1973. Beginning with the fall 1973 semester, operations were moved to the present 50-acre site overlooking the Harlem River when the Dormitory Authority of the State of NY acquired the former NYU University Heights campus.
Located on the Bronx Community College campus is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans dedicated in 1901. This arcade of columns and busts of great Americans was a fusion of two ideas. One of those ideas was the brainchild of Stanford White to link the original three buildings—Hall of Philosophy, Hall of Languages, and the Gould Memorial Library—by an open-air arcade. The other idea was by Dr. Henry Mitchell MacCracken, the Chancellor of New York University, who believed that this structure could simultaneously be used as a monument and educational tool...thus The Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
