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:

    “What times! What manners! The Senate knows these things, the consul sees them, and yet this man lives.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians; and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:30.