Gillet Hall at
Lehman College, one of
the four original
Collegiate Gothic
stone buildings built between 1929 and 1931, photographed in
June 2014. The other three were Davis Hall, the Music Building, and the
Gymnasium. From 1931 to 1941 this was a women's college (Hunter Bronx). When
the war started, the campus served as a training station for WAVES (US Navy
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services). In 1946 the gymnasium
building was used for the first meetings of the United Nations Security
council, before the UN building was completed in Manhattan. The campus
resumed its educational role in 1947, still as the Bronx campus of Hunter
College but with a new division for returning veterans, and finally became
Lehman College in 1968.
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