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1908 Victor Hall 622 West 113th Street
– later know as the Princeton; purchased by Columbia in 1965 and renamed McVickar Hall and converted into classrooms first for the School of International Affairs and then for the School of Social Work per Dolkart page 334
– currently the Columbia Alumni Center (source)
Located in the Morningside Heights Historic District designated 21 February 2017
1908-A
166
$180,000.00
113th st, s s, 275 w Broadway 8-sty brk and stone apartment house, 77˙85.11
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) V Cerabone Const Co / (o) 574 W 182d [182nd] st COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Schwartz & Gross / (a) 347 5th [Fifth] av (source)
Victor Cerabone’s [husband of Celestina Paterno] first building within the district was the eight-story brick and stone Georgian Revival style apartment house at 622 West 113th Street (Schwartz & Gross, 1908) with its arrangement of flat-, bowed- and segmental-arched lintels, metal balconies, elaborate swags and modillioned cornice. (source)
– {Note: The Sunnycrest pre-dates Victor Hall.]
– V. Cerabone Construction Co.
– Schwartz & Gross (source)
Living It Up (published 1984) page page 347: Victoria Hall is located at 614-616 West 113th Street which may have influenced the name of Victor Hall or vice versa. Also, Victor Cerabone built this building and may have named it after himself.
