Editing Hunter College (section)

===Expansion===
In 1913 the east end of the building, housing the elementary school, was replaced by Thomas Hunter Hall, a new limestone [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] building facing [[Lexington Avenue]] and designed by [[C. B. J. Snyder]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=2008-04-20 |title=The Vestige of What Might Have Been |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/realestate/20scap.html |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The following year the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[Staten Island]]. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with [[City College of New York|City College]]'s Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form [[Brooklyn College]].

[[File:Hunter College NY WAVES camp opening 1943.JPG|thumb|left|Opening of the [[United States Navy|Navy]] recruit camp for [[Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service|WAVES]] at Bronx Campus, February 8, 1943]]

In February 1936 a fire destroyed the 1873 Gothic building facing Park Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |date=1936-02-14 |title=FIRE SWEEPS UNIT OF HUNTER COLLEGE; Destroys Large Part of Original Building at Park Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street. WATCHMAN GIVES ALARM Traffic Is Diverted by Night Blaze, Which Attracts Crowds of Spectators. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/14/archives/fire-sweeps-unit-of-hunter-college-destroys-large-part-of-original.html?searchResultPosition=3 |access-date=2024-03-26 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Plans for a new building were announced in 1937,<ref>{{cite news |date=1937-10-16 |title=HUNTER BUILDING TO RISE 16 STORIES; Preliminary Plans Submitted for Structure to Replace One Razed by Fire 'LITTLE THEATRE' IN IT Auditorium to Seat 2,500 Also Included in Set-Up of the New College Will Face Sixty-ninth Street Space for Laboratories |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/16/archives/hunter-building-to-rise-16-stories-preliminary-plans-submitted-for.html?searchResultPosition=2 |access-date=2024-03-26 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> and by 1940 the [[Public Works Administration]] replaced it with the [[Modern architecture|Modernist]] north building, designed by [[Shreve, Lamb & Harmon]] along with [[Harrison & Abramovitz|Harrison & Fouilhoux]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/north-building-hunter-college-new-york-ny/|title=Hunter College: North Building - New York NY|accessdate=July 1, 2023}}</ref>

The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the [[Second World War]], Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the [[United States Navy]] who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as [[WAVES]] and [[SPARS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec4.htm |title=Free A Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II (Early Training: Holyoke and Hunter) |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/grad/187.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830080929/http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/programs/grad/187.htm|url-status=dead|title=History of Lehman College|archive-date=August 30, 2010}}</ref>

In 1943, [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] dedicated a town house at [[Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House|47–49 East 65th Street]] in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for Eleanor and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] prior to the latter's presidency.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=2003-03-18 |title=Fixing Monument To Mother-in-Law; Sara Delano Roosevelt Ruled Home of Franklin and Eleanor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/nyregion/fixing-monument-mother-law-sara-delano-roosevelt-ruled-home-franklin-eleanor.html |access-date=2024-03-26 | newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The [[Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College]] opened at that location in fall 2010 as an academic center hosting prominent speakers.