McBain Hall

2892 Broadway | also 562 West 113th Street, 2898 Broadway, 2896 Broadway | Morningside Heights | built 1908

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1908
Neville & Bagge design the Yorkshire apartments for the Mayer family
In 1908 the firm of Neville & Bagge drew up this eight-story building for the developer Isaac Mayer and his son Henry, with shops on the ground floor and apartments above. It was one of many apartment houses built in Morningside Heights after the IRT subway opened in 1904. Its name then was the Yorkshire.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
A Renaissance Revival corner building with an Ionic portico and a bluestone stoop
The Yorkshire has a rusticated stone base, a bluestone stoop and a portico with Ionic columns carrying a balustraded balcony, behind which sits a three-bay entrance with pilasters and an arched niche. Inset bay windows are framed by multi-story surrounds with quoins, columns and pediments. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the style Renaissance Revival with later alterations.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
The building becomes the Yorkshire Residence Hotel in the 1940s and is later bought by Columbia
According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the apartment house became a single-room-occupancy residence in the 1940s under a new name, the Yorkshire Residence Hotel. Columbia bought it in the 1960s and made it a dormitory, and for a time the offices of Columbia University Press were also there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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