Located behind the Hall of Languages and next to Hinds Hall, this building houses three floors of classrooms and is the hub for SU's languages, literatures, and linguistics department. HBC, as it is commonly known, was built in 1962 with funds from Florence Crouse (Huntington's widow) and the Crouse-Hinds Company Foundation. She was an 1899 graduate of SU and a member of the Board of Trustees. Huntington Crouse, a local industrialist, founded the Crouse-Hinds Company with Jesse L. Hinds in 1897.

Many alumni will recall that HBC is also the home of Gifford Auditorium, a gift from the Gifford Foundation, where films are shown several nights a week. Perhaps HBC's most distinguishing feature is Ben Shahn's "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" -the mosaic that lines the lower east side of the building. (see next stop)