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[[File:Reid Hall-Paris Resident Club for American Women Students - DPLA - 991cc41a920acae134b868d400b87d27.jpg|thumb|Reid Hall]]

'''Reid Hall''' is a complex of academic facilities owned and operated by [[Columbia University]] that is located in the [[Montparnasse]] [[Quarters of Paris|quartier]] of [[Paris]], [[France]]. It houses the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in addition to various graduate and undergraduate divisions of over a dozen [[United States|American]] [[college]]s and [[university|universities]]. For over a century, Reid Hall has served as a link between the academic communities of the United States and France.

In 1964, the property was bequeathed to Columbia University,<ref name="Gift2C">{{cite web |title=Gifted to Columbia University |url=https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/gifted-columbia-university-0 |website=Columbia Global Centers |publisher=[[Columbia University]] |access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref> and has since seen lectures by such notable French intellectuals as [[structuralism|structuralist]] critic [[Roland Barthes]], [[deconstructionism|deconstructionalist]] philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]], existentialist philosopher [[Simone de Beauvoir]], cinema critic [[Michel Ciment]], and [[Edwy Plenel]], former editor-in-chief of ''[[Le Monde]]''. In addition to Columbia University, it currently houses undergraduate and graduate divisions of over a dozen American institutions, including:

* [[American Graduate School in Paris]]

* [[City University of New York]]

* [[University of Kent|University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture]]

Reid Hall's origins date to the mid-eighteenth century, when it served as a [[porcelain]] [[factory]] and warehouse. By 1799, the building was purchased by two French brothers by the name of Dagoty, who succeeded in converting the building to one of the largest and most successful porcelain factories in France. By 1812, the Dagoty brothers had over a hundred workers in their employ and built an additional three warehouses and four storerooms, one of which was richly ornamented with mirrors and decorative shelves. Their porcelain was not only popular in the dining rooms of the local bourgeoisie, but was also purchased for such residences as the castle of [[Compiègne]], the [[palace of Versailles]], and the [[White House]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] [[James Monroe]], who was then the [[President of the United States]], commissioned a Dagoty [[china (material)|china]] service featuring an American [[eagle]] motif for use at official state dinners.

In 1834, the site became the home of the Keller Institute, a boarding school led by a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] Protestant Educator Jean-Jacques Keller. It was the first [[Protestant]] school established in France since the revocation of the [[Edict of Nantes]] in 1685, whose student body came from the home of bourgeois [[Huguenots]], or French Protestants, and wealthy [[expatriate]]s. Students included [[André Gide]], who attended the Institute in 1886, an experience that he later described in his writings.

[[File:John Singer Sargent Elizabeth Mills Reid.png|thumb|upright=0.7|Elizabeth Mills Reid]]

[[File:Garden of the Club from Scribner's Magazine Novembre 1894.png|thumb|upright=0.7|American Girl's Club around 1894.]]

[[File:4 rue de Chevreuse Paris.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Gate in 1908, by [[Anne Goldthwaite]]]]

By 1893,The Keller Institute was forced to close its doors, and the complex was purchased by the [[philanthropist]] and social activist Elizabeth Mills Reid<!--Q107387497-->, whose father, [[Darius Ogden Mills|Darius O. Mills]], had been president of the [[Bank of California]], and whose husband was the American [[plenipotentiary]] minister to Paris, [[Whitelaw Reid]]. Mrs. Reid then established the [[American Girls' Club in Paris]] in hopes of providing artistic and academic opportunities to young American women living in Paris. The success of the club allowed Reid to expand the complex to include a neighboring building and its courtyard.<ref name = "WomanArtJournal">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3566532 Mariea Caudill Dennison, Woman's Art Journal] "The American Girls' Club in Paris: The Propriety and Imprudence of Art Students, 1890-1914" Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 2005), pp. 32-37</ref>

In 1922, Reid began converting the complex to house a center for advanced and university studies for American women. Reid Hall became important to American women's academics in [[Western Europe]], and grew along with [[French American|Franco-American]] artistic activity in the Montparnasse quarter during the [[inter-war period]], with visits and lectures being provided by influential neighbors including [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Nadia Boulanger]]. During [[World War II]], Reid Hall became a refuge, first for [[Poland|Polish]] university women, then for [[Belgians|Belgian]] teachers, and later for the women students of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Sèvres. After the war, the property was converted once again to a university center, this time with a [[coeducational]] student body. The Sweet Briar College Junior Year in France and others were based at Reid Hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Cultural and Educational Hub |url=https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/cultural-and-educational-hub-0 |website=Columbia Global Centers |publisher=[[Columbia University]] |access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref> Elizabeth Mill Reid's daughter in law (and former social secretary) [[Helen Rogers Reid]] continued to own the property but in 1964 she gave the property to Columbia University.<ref name="Gift2C" /> In September 2018, Reid Hall welcomed the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, an initiative launched by Columbia's President, [[Lee Bollinger]]. The combination of the Center and the Institute, bring to Reid Hall the significant resources provided by Columbia faculty, students, and administration.<ref>{{cite web |title=Columbia Global Centers |url=https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/reid-hall |accessdate=17 June 2019}}</ref>

*[https://paris.undergrad.columbia.edu/content/reid-hall Reid Hall Website at Columbia's Website]

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