Barnes Hall

Barnes Hall is a student-services building located in the center of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York.

Alfred Smith Barnes, a publisher and Cornell trustee,[1] funded the construction of the building next to Sage Chapel on what was then called Central Avenue (now Ho Plaza).

The top floor is a large recital room with a cathedral ceiling supported by hammer beams.

In 1952, its religious functions moved to Anabel Taylor Hall, and the Cornell Campus Store and a U.S. Post Office took over the lower levels.

However, in 1970, a new underground campus store, designed by Earl Flansburgh was built under the grass quadrangle between Barnes and Sage.