 The building is one of six original buildings on the Morningside Heights campus in Columbia and a National Historic Chemical Landmark.The Department of Chemistry of the university is based in Havemeyer Hall, and the majority of chemistry classes are taught there.Many important experiments in the history of chemistry have been conducted in the building, as well as significant research by some of the most well known chemists of the 20th century including Marston Taylor Bogert, Henry C. Sherman, Milton C. Whitaker and John Maurice Nelson.