615 West 131st Street, between Broadway and 12th Avenue, and between 131st and 132nd Streets. A former Studebaker automobile finishing plant (hence the muscular freight elevator), constructed in 1923. Brick construction with white porcelein trim, 6 stories, plot size 175x200 feet, floorspace 210,000 square feet. The blue Studebaker logo used between 1912 and 1934 is still visible on the southwest corner near the top. After WWII, the building was a Borden milk processing plant, and later home to various offices and small manufacturing facilities. Columbia began to rent office space there in the 1980s and bought the building recently.
Last update: Thu Feb 8 16:25:38 2007