Georgian Residence
617 West 168th Street | Washington Heights | built 1931
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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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- 1962
Presbyterian Hospital buys the Georgian Building at 617 West 168th Street to house its staff nurses
The building began as a private apartment house, and Presbyterian Hospital purchased it in 1962 to provide housing for staff nurses. The medical center's own construction chronology lists the purchase of the Georgian Building among its 1962 projects. Some of the original architectural details survive, including solid wood floors, decorative door moldings and spacious rooms.
Source: cuimc.columbia.edu
- 1983
The Georgian Residence is divided between academic offices below and apartments above
Since 1983 the lowest three floors of the building at 617 West 168th Street have held academic offices, while the top four floors have been residential. The apartments are offered by Columbia University Irving Medical Center as campus housing, in studios and two-person suites. Washers and dryers are on the first floor, and a lounge with a stove and microwave is on the fourth.
Source: cuimc.columbia.edu
- 1984
The School of Nursing moves into the Georgian Building as Maxwell and Harkness Halls are demolished
Maxwell Hall had been ready for occupancy as the School of Nursing building in March 1928, when the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center opened. It and Harkness Hall were demolished between fall 1984 and winter 1985, and the nursing school relocated to the Georgian Building. The hospital held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new Milstein Hospital Building in October 1984, during the same stretch.
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