Sharing this here because I just spent some time going through my old LinkedIn posts looking for it. And maybe I’m not the only one who is interested in where the College Board used to be located:
There are more sites to add to the standardized testing pilgrimage route!
I read in “College Board: Its First Fifty Years” that the original offices of that organization were in the Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University (which apparently is not actually a library). They later moved to offices in Hamilton Hall, which as most readers will know was recently the site of a running battle between student protestors and the NYPD.
According to the same book, the organization later rented a house at 431 West 117th street (which no longer stands). They then moved to a house at 425 West 117th street (again, which no longer exists) where they remained until the 1950s. The book indicates that in the 1920s the board intended to construct a six-story headquarters but those plans were dashed by the financial collapse of 1929.
Curiously, old issues of the “College Board Review” indicate that the College Board was one of the first tenants of the Rockefeller-funded Interchurch Center (aka “the God Box”) when it opened in 1958.
This is how I spend my weekends, apparently.
