One of the University's most versatile buildings, Chancellor Green, has recently reopened with two more functions — to serve as a study space for students and a center for lectures.
The High Victorian Gothic-style building, located directly beside East Pyne on the northern side of campus, was originally built in 1872. Since then it has served as the main University library, a coffee house, a student pub and a student center.
Chancellor Green's most recent renovation, made in conjunction with the underground enlargement of East Pyne, restored the exterior and connected the two buildings physically. The project was completed this school year, and a new cafe opened in Chancellor Green's basement in January.
The building's main rotunda — the site of the former Chancellor Green Library — opened a few weeks ago as a study space, and the seminar rooms on both sides of the rotunda have started holding classes.
While the bookshelves will most likely remain empty, "the idea is that it will always be a study space," said Carol Rigolot, the executive director of the Humanities Council. The rotunda features chairs and couches as well as carrels in the mezzanine for comfortable studying.
"Clouds Nine," a hanging sculpture by Win Knowlton, is now suspended from the rotunda's East Pyne entrance, Rigolot said.
The building will also host lectures, receptions, films and other events, mainly in the seminar rooms.
Chancellor Green is part of the Humanities Council's Andlinger Center, which comprises East Pyne, the Joseph Henry House and the still-unnamed white house next to the Henry House, unofficially referred to as Henry the Second.
Amy Elias, the University employee in charge of scheduling and managing events in Chancellor Green, said that for now the building is only hosting events and classes affiliated with the Humanities Council.
But she added that in the future the building will most likely be used to host some events not directly related to the humanities.
Rigolot agreed that the building's functions will expand with time. Although the rotunda is open for only limited hours this semester, she said "it will really be up and moving in the fall."
"Right now [Chancellor Green] is being used on a very experimental basis," she said.
The new Chancellor Green rotunda will be dedicated March 14.
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