Senate House

Senate House is a term frequently used to describe the main administrative building of a university.

Buildings called Senate House include:

  • Senate House (University of Cambridge) of the University of Cambridge
  • Senate House (University of London) of the University of London
  • Senate House (University of Madras) of the University of Madras
  • Senate House (University of Peradeniya) of the University of Peradeniya
  • Senate House State Historic Site, in Kingston, New York, where the state of New York was established in 1777.

Famous quotes containing the words senate and/or house:

    “Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,
    And sit attentive to his own applause.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)