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aller sets of staircases connect the intermediate landing to passages at terrace level on the west and east.

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger said of the Steps in 1987: "The building itself, for all the power of its immense scale and huge dome, seems almost to recede, deferring to the stairs before it." During commencement speeches, Columbia's "graduation mace" is customarily carried down the stairs. The stairs have also been used for other speeches, such as a 1991 speech by novelist Salman Rushdie after the Iranian government targeted him for assassination.

Design

South elevation, from the upper stories of Butler Library
The Low Memorial Library was built from 1894 to 1897 and designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, & White. McKim was assisted in the design by William M. Kendall, Austin W. Lord, and Egerton Swartwout. The library was designed in the Neoclassical style, incorporating many of the elements of Rome's Pantheon, as well as the Baths of Caracalla. It was funded by Seth Low, the president of Columbia University and later the mayor of New York City, in memory of his father Abiel Abbot Low.

Form
Low is arranged in the shape of a Greek cross, aligned with the Manhattan street grid and containing beveled corners. The main walls of the building's Greek cross correspond to the four cardinal directions. The cross has a maximum width of 192 feet (59 m). The Greek cross layout had been used previously in several libraries, including the main library of New York University's Bronx campus (now Gould Memorial Library on the campus of Bronx Community College), designed by McKim's colle

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