117th Street - Revision history

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 [[Image:10 19 0.JPEG|thumb|right|A vestigial 117th Street sign can still be glimpsed on [[Morningside Drive]], between [[EC]] and [[Faculty House]] ]]
-'''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the [[Morningside Heights campus|main Columbia campus]], which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard]] campus.
+'''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the [[Morningside Heights campus|main Columbia campus]], which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard College|Barnard]] campus.
 The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as '''Dean's Row''' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia deans, as well as language houses and other organizations, including:

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 A vestigial street sign announcing the presence of 117th Street still stands on the eastern side of [[Morningside Drive]] where it once intersected with the street. It now points to the ugly metal gate between [[Faculty House]] and East Campus.
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 '''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the [[Morningside Heights campus|main Columbia campus]], which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard]] campus.
-The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as '''Dean's Row''' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia language houses and other organizations, including:
+The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as '''Dean's Row''' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia deans, as well as language houses and other organizations, including:
 *At 435, the "Casa de las Espanas," as [[Casa Hispanica]] was then called (now with its own dedicated building on the other side of campus)
 *At 429, the [[Frankfurt School]]'s Institute for Social Research
-*At 423, the original [[Deutsches Haus]] (now in [[King's Crown (Residence Hall)|King's Crown]])
+*At 423, the original [[Deutsches Haus]] (now in [[King's Crown (Residence Hall)|King's Crown]])<ref>There is some conflict on this point. While the University's [http://archive.org/stream/catalogue1943colu#page/n193/mode/2up 1943 Catalogue] states that 423 W 117th is the home of Deutsches Haus, the gift of Edward D. Adams, John B. Pine's [[1920]] volume of charters, statutes, real estate conveyances, endowments, and other things states that ''419'' W 117th Street was purchased with a gift from Edward Adams, and that the building had been known as Deutsches Haus until Nov. 4, 1918 when the trustees voted to rename it ''Columbia House.'' Pine goes on to note that the work conducted in the house also lapsed until 1920 when the trustees voted to revive the unused deutsches haus endowment. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover "Charters Acts of the Legislature Official Documents and Records" compiled by John B. Pine (1920)] pgs. 112, 411, 463-4.</ref>
 *At 419, the Geological Society of America
-*At 415, the office of the [[Dean of Columbia College]] (now in [[Hamilton Hall]])
+*At 417, the residence of the Dean of [[SEAS]]
-*At 413, the office of the [[University Chaplain]]
+*At 415, the residence of the [[Dean of Columbia College]]
 *At 411, [[Maison Francaise]] (now in [[Buell Hall]])
 *At 405, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, since [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] was in charge of it

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 [[Image:10 19 0.JPEG|thumb|right|A vestigial 117th Street sign can still be glimpsed on [[Morningside Drive]], between [[EC]] and [[Faculty House]] ]]
-'''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the main Columbia campus, which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard]] campus.
+'''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the [[Morningside Heights campus|main Columbia campus]], which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard]] campus.
 The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as '''Dean's Row''' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia language houses and other organizations, including:

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 '''117th Street''' does not exist. At least, not in [[Morningside Heights]]. The stretch of the street that once lay betweeen [[Riverside Drive]] and [[Morningside Drive]] was first eviscerated by the main Columbia campus, which when constituted as a superblock in the 1890s stretched from [[116th Street]] to [[120th Street]]. The next segment to go was that between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Claremont Avenue]], swallowed for the [[Barnard]] campus.
-The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as ''Dean's Row'' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia language houses and other organizations, including:
+The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses and became known as '''Dean's Row''' because it contained the original homes of many Columbia language houses and other organizations, including:
 *At 435, the "Casa de las Espanas," as [[Casa Hispanica]] was then called (now with its own dedicated building on the other side of campus)

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 The remaining portion of the street, between [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and Morningside, was actually developed with rowhouses, which contained the original homes of many Columbia and other organizations, including:
-*At 435, the original [[Casa Italiana]] and the "Casa de las Espanas," as [[Casa Hispanica]] was then called (each now have their own dedicated buildings)
+*At 435, the "Casa de las Espanas," as [[Casa Hispanica]] was then called (now with its own dedicated building on the other side of campus)
 *At 429, the [[Frankfurt School]]'s Institute for Social Research
 *At 423, the original [[Deutsches Haus]] (now in [[King's Crown]]