Ruggles Hall

508 West 114th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1930

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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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  1. 1908

    Paterno Bros. builds the Tennessee and Arizona apartment houses at 508 and 514 West 114th Street

    A 1909 supplement to a directory of New York apartment houses lists the Tennessee and Arizona at 508 and 514 West 114th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, with plans of the first floor and the upper floors. Its notes credit Paterno Bros. as builder in 1908-09 and the firm Schwartz & Gross as architects. Number 508 is now Columbia's Ruggles Hall.

    Source: digitalcollections.nypl.org

  2. 2016

    Ruggles Hall gets new windows, an entrance ramp and electric stoves in 2016 and 2017

    Columbia's housing updates for Ruggles Hall in 2016 and 2017 included a ramp by the entrance, new windows, rolling desk chairs and electric stoves throughout the building. New entry doors followed in 2018, according to a Spectator list of dorm renovations published in March 2019.

    Source: columbiaspectator.com

  3. 2017

    November 29

    A third-floor fire sends Ruggles Hall residents onto 114th Street for over five hours

    A fire broke out on Ruggles Hall's third floor soon after 11 p.m. on a Wednesday, charring walls and sending smoke onto 114th Street. Six fire trucks responded, and residents were kept out for more than five hours, until 4:27 a.m. No one was hurt. A university spokesperson told Columbia Spectator that FDNY fire marshals traced the blaze to clothing draped over a halogen lamp.

    Source: columbiaspectator.com

  4. 2023

    Ruggles Hall's elevator is modernized to meet the city's new elevator code in summer 2023

    Columbia's summer 2023 construction list included elevator modernization at Ruggles Hall, carried out to satisfy new elevator-code requirements from the New York City Department of Buildings. The university said upgrades to elevators in campus buildings would continue over the following years to comply with the new regulations.

    Source: designconstruct.cufo.columbia.edu

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