Burgess Hall
2876 Broadway | also 2872 Broadway, 2878A Broadway, 2878 Broadway | Morningside Heights | built 1908
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1907
Neville & Bagge design the Devonshire apartments for the Hall Realty Company
In 1907 the firm of Neville & Bagge designed a ten-story building on the corner where Broadway meets West 112th Street, on its southeast side, with shops at street level. The client was the A. C. & H. M. Hall Realty Company, and it was finished in 1908 as the Devonshire; the Landmarks Preservation Commission also lists the name Washington Irving. The Commission counts it among the many apartment houses that went up after the IRT subway opened in 1904.
- 1908
A French Renaissance Revival corner building with a two-story columned entrance and chamfered corners
Neville & Bagge gave the corner building a three-part facade, with a stone base and a transitional brick story. It has a two-story entrance framed by columns, angled corners dressed with quoins and half-round columns, and carved cartouches, and the top is a shallow cornice below a setback parapet. The Commission classifies the style as French Renaissance Revival, in red brick, stone and terra cotta.
- 2017
The Commission designates the Morningside Heights district, which takes in the building
On February 21, 2017, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Morningside Heights Historic District and listed this building as contributing to it. The report records that the former apartment house had at one time been partly turned into single-room occupancy housing and is now a Columbia University residence. It was designed in 1907 and is ten stories tall.
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