college's main gymnasium between 1907 and 1972.
The sixth campus, Goethals Hall, was completed in 1930. The new building was named for George Washington Goethals, the CCNY civil engineering alumnus who, as mentioned above in the section on the history of the college, went on to become the chief engineer of the Panama Canal. Goethals Hall housed the School of Technology (engineering) and adjoins the Mechanical Arts Building, Compton Hall.
The six neo-Gothic buildings are connected by a tunnel, which closed to public use in 1969. Six hundred grotesques on the original buildings represent the practical and the fine arts.
The North Campus Quadrangle contains four great arches on the main avenues entering and exiting the campus:
Hudson Gate on Amsterdam Avenue
George Washington Gate at 138th Street and Convent Avenue
Alexander Hamilton Gate at the northern edge of Convent Avenue
Peter Stuyvesant Gate at St. Nicholas Terrace (only the southern base remaining).
The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission made the …
