11. Live Your Cinematic Dreams at Havemeyer Hall

Havemeyer Hall is one of Columbia’s oldest buildings, and also one of its most famous—one of its classrooms, Room 309, has been featured in more movies than any other university classroom in the US.

It was built between 1896 and 1898 under the supervision of Charles Frederick Chandler II, an instrumental founder of Columbia University’s chemistry department. One of the school’s six original buildings, Havemeyer Hall’s distinct limestone-frosted red brick layout was designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The building is now home to the university’s chemistry department, and it has hosted research that has led to seven Nobel prizes. Room 309, the central lecture hall, has appeared in nine major motion pictures, including GhostbustersSpiderman, Mona Lisa Smile, and Kinsey.