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Van Nest Hall
Van Nest Hall is the second instructional building that was erected on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is located on the Queens Campus on College Avenue, which is on its right side. Geology Hall to its left, Winants Hall is in front of it, and University property followed by Hamilton Street lays behind it.

Van Nest Hall was designed by architect Nicholas Wyckoff, and it was originally two stories when it was was built in 1847. It was named after trustee Abraham Van Nest due to his years of patronage and service to the University, the College. In 1893, Abraham Van Nest's daughter Ann Van Nest Bussing funded renovations to the building, adding a third floor and a new porch and portico.

Originally, Van Nest Hall housed the two literary societies on the first floor: the Philoclean Society and the Peithessophian Society. The second floor became home to the sciences; included was the chemical laboratory of Professor Lewis Beck and the geological museum