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Caltech's 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is located in Pasadena, California, approximately 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is within walking distance of Old Town Pasadena and the Pasadena Playhouse District and therefore the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States.The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
Buildings and structures of the California Institute of Technology — on the Pasadena, California campus, and at other locations worldwide. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Athenaeum was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Mediterranean Revival style, with landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, and opened in 1930.It includes a restaurant, bar, private hotel rooms, [1] and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club. [2]
Caltech-owned housing that is not part of any of the eight houses is known as "off-campus" housing, even if it is actually physically located on the Caltech campus (non-Caltech owned housing is called "off-off-campus" or "off-squared"). These housing units do not maintain memberships or have the community or traditions that the other houses have.
Having traveled the difficult road of coming to terms with racism in its own past, Caltech on Friday said it would remove the names of Robert A. Millikan and five other important figures in its ...
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Prior to the construction of the South Houses, there was a single on-campus dormitory housing 60 students. [1]: 11 This building was designed by Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey for Throop Polytechnic Institute, and had been constructed in 1910 elsewhere in Pasadena. In 1915 it was cut into seven sections and moved to the current campus.