Main campus
Cornell's main campus is located in Ithaca, New York; Day
Hall, the administration building, is located on East Avenue. The campus itself is situated on a rolling site of 745 acres (3
km²) on East Hill, overlooking Cayuga Lake and downtown Ithaca two miles (3
km) to the west. The 260 or so major buildings are mostly divided into quads for the Arts, Engineering, and Agriculture, a
science lab complex, and the athletic complex.Central campus is bounded to its north and south by spectacular limestone gorges and waterfalls. Dormitories, fraternity and
sorority houses, and student centers are located on North Campus, north of Fall Creek Gorge, and on West Campus, at the bottom of
the Library Slope ("Libe Slope"); after snowfalls, students are known to sled down the Slope on trays from the dining hall. East
of the main campus lie the Cornell Plantations, approximately 3,600 acres (15 km²) encompassing an arboretum and botanical
gardens as well as natural woodlands, trails, streams, and gorges. South of Cascadilla Gorge lies the student-oriented
Collegetown business and residential district.The first building, Morrill Hall, was erected in 1868, although Cascadilla Hall, a
dormitory purchased some years later is slightly older. Cornell's signature landmark is McGraw Tower, which rises 173 feet and
161 steps from the ground. Constructed in 1891 adjoining Uris Library, it features the
Cornell Chimes, 21 bells on which the Cornell chimesmasters play three
daily concerts.Contrasting with the Gothic, Victorian, and Neo-Classical buildings on the
Arts Quad is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, designed by I. M. Pei. Other notable buildings: Willard Straight Hall, one of the earliest student unions; Martha Van
Rensselaer Hall, the largest academic building in the eastern United States; Duffield Hall, one of the world's most advanced
nanotechnology facilities; and the Statler Hotel, adjacent to and associated with the School of Hotel Administration.
New York City campus
The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center is located on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan, New
York City. It is home to the Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and has a long
affiliation with the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Although their faculty and academic divisions remain separate, the Medical
Center shares its administrative functions with the Columbia
University Medical Center, and is also affiliated with the Sloan-Kettering
Institute for cancer research.
Other campuses
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, operated by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is located in
Geneva, New York, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the main campus.
The facility now comprises 20 major buildings on 130 acres (0.5 km²) of land, as well as over 700 acres (2.8 km²) of test plots
and other lands devoted to horticultural research. It also operates three substations, Vineyard Research Laboratory in Fredonia, Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in
Riverhead.The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, located in Education City, near Doha, is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki.The Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station dedicated to undergraduate education and research operated in
conjunction with the University of New
Hampshire, is located on the 95 acre (0.4 km²) Appledore Island off the Maine–New Hampshire coast.The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, site of the world's largest radio
telescope, is operated by Cornell.Cornell University maintains facilities in Washington, DC and
New York City for its Cornell in Washington, Urban Semester, and Urban
Scholars Programs.Other facilities include
- Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point in Bridgeport
- Punta Cana and EsBaran biodiversity field stations in the Dominican Republic and Peru
- Arnot Teaching and Research Forest natural resources center in Tompkins and Schuyler Counties.
- Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Harford, and
Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, New York
- Offices of the New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and School of Industrial and Labor Relations Extension
Service throughout New York State
- Offices for Cornell-administered study abroad programs such as the Cornell-Nepal Study Program and Cornell-in-Rome