Campbell Hall

Campbell Hall can refer to:

Campbell Hall (UC Berkeley)

Campbell Hall is an academic building at the University of California, Berkeley. It houses interaction spaces for the physics and astronomy departments at UC Berkeley and is named after astronomer and former UC President William Wallace Campbell.

History

The first Campbell Hall was built from 1957 to 1959 as one of several buildings built in the post World War II era. Its design is a combination of modernist design that was encouraged by a 1951 Campus Plan Study performed by the Office of Architects and Engineers, and the Beaux Arts/neo-classical design of earlier buildings. Campbell Hall was constructed to house the departments of astronomy, statistics, and mathematics, and the campus computer center. The Department of Astronomy has remained in the building since its completion, but the other programs mostly relocated to nearby buildings. Two small observatory domes were incorporated into Campbell Hall, but it was soon decided that it was not a useful location for astronomical observation because of weather and increasing urban light pollution. Recently, it mainly housed the astronomy and astrophysics programs, and various administrative offices for the College of Letters and Sciences, including the dean's office.

Campbell Hall (Metro-North station)

The Campbell Hall Metro-North station is located just south of the eponymous hamlet in the town of Hamptonburgh in Orange County, New York. It is served by trains on the Port Jervis Line, which either go west to Port Jervis or south to Hoboken, 65.6 miles (106 km) away. Travel time to the latter is around an hour and a half. As with most of the Port Jervis Line stations, this station serves not only Campbell Hall, but customers from such surrounding towns as Goshen, Chester and Montgomery.

Situated amidst farms and fields, it is the northernmost Metro-North station west of the Hudson River, as the line begins to curve in a southerly direction just west of the station. Facilities used to be rather minimal, but recent renovations by the MTA have given it similar amenities to other stations along the line: decorative lights, a longer platform roof and an elevated platform at the east end of the station for access by riders in wheelchairs. In the course of these, however, parking is no longer free. A permit/meter system like those at other stations has been instituted.