Butler Hall

88 Morningside Drive | also 400 West 119th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1925

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.

1924
George F. Pelham completes Butler Hall, a 15-story building at 400 West 119th Street
Pelham set up his own practice in 1890 and concentrated on apartment houses, hotels, row houses and commercial buildings, with much of his work on the Upper West Side. He designed buildings for 43 years. A published list of his works gives Butler Hall at 400 West 119th Street as a 15-story building from 1924.
Source: Wikipedia
2011
March
The Terrace in the Sky restaurant atop Butler Hall files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
The Morningside Heights Restaurant Corporation, which ran the rooftop restaurant, filed in March, blaming the weak restaurant economy. Its biggest creditor was its landlord, Columbia, owed $87,000, and the university's trustees sued over unpaid rent. The reorganization plan let the restaurant keep operating for a time.
Source: columbiaspectator.com
2011
October
Terrace in the Sky, once called Morningside Heights' fanciest restaurant, closes after 36 years
Columbia confirmed that the rooftop restaurant had left Butler Hall. The New York Times had called it Morningside Heights' fanciest restaurant, and it hosted graduation toasts, birthday dinners and political events. In May the trustees had moved to force it out, saying it occupied valuable commercial space, and in August the case was dismissed.
Source: columbiaspectator.com

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