115th Street Brownstones
The 115th Street Brownstones are three brownstone buildings on the south side of W. 115th Street (Nos. 408, 410, and 412) between Amsterdam Ave and Morningside Drive that Columbia has slated for demolition over the objection of local politicians who want them preserved as historic exemplars of "the earliest built multiunit residential buildings that still stand in Morningside Heights." Not to be confused with the law school-owned brownstones across the street.
Columbia has no known plans for the site once its cleared. There had been some discussion of building a new undergraduate dormitory on the site to accommodate plans for an expanded Columbia College class size, but failure to secure a donor led to the adoption of alternate plans for housing students, including the conversion of Harmony Hall from graduate student housing to undergraduate housing in 2009-2010, and 548 W. 113th Street, a brownstone typically reserved for fraternities or Special Interest Communities in 2010-2011.
External links
- CU Seeks to Demolish Brownstones O’Donnell Deems Historic, Columbia Spectator, 30 January 2009
- Columbia to proceed with disputed demolition, Columbia Spectator, 2 December 2009
