River Hall
628 West 114th Street | also 626 West 114th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1905
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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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- 1905
Paterno Brothers have Schwartz & Gross design a six-story Georgian Revival apartment house at 628 West 114th Street
Paterno Brothers built this six-story apartment house at 626-628 West 114th Street in 1905, to designs by Schwartz & Gross. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it one of two nearly identical buildings, the other at 622 West 114th Street. Its facade has a limestone base, Flemish-bond brick with dark headers, a recessed central bay with fire escapes stacked above the entry, and three free-standing shields on the parapet. A stone panel over the entrance reads River Hall.
- 1905
Paterno Bros. start in the Morningside Heights district with two six-story apartment houses on West 114th Street
After their father John Paterno died in 1899, brothers Joseph and Charles formed Paterno Bros. Their first project in what is now the Morningside Heights Historic District was a pair of apartment houses of six stories each, at 622 and 628 West 114th Street, called Revere Hall and River Hall. By the 1920s the family had put up 40 apartment buildings in Morningside Heights.
- 1908
A 1908 directory of apartment houses pictures the building as Hudson Hall
G. C. Hesselgren's 1908 directory Apartment Houses of the Metropolis includes a photograph of Hudson Hall at 628 West 114th Street. Its notes credit Paterno Bros. as the builder and Schwartz & Gross as the architects. The building is now Columbia's River Hall.
Source: digitalcollections.nypl.org
- 2024
Columbia refreshes River Hall's bedrooms and repairs its facade over summer 2024
Over summer 2024 Columbia refreshed every bedroom, common room and public space at River Hall, 628 West 114th Street, adding new lighting, flooring, kitchen cabinetry and plumbing fixtures along with electrical upgrades. Exterior work covered facade repairs under the city's inspection program, courtyard slab repairs, new fences on the west and east sides and window replacements. The project was finished in August 2024.
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