Prentis Hall is a historic building located on the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University at 632 West 125th Street. It houses the university's department of music and the Computer Music Center , as well as facilities for the School of the Arts . It is one of three historic buildings that survived in the university's Manhattanville plan, the others being the Studebaker Building and the Nash Building.
12-485: Prentis Hall was built from 1909 to 1911 as a pasteurization and bottling plant for the Sheffield Farms–Slawson–Decker Company . Designed by Frank A. Rooke , who designed several other buildings for Sheffield Farms, the building costed $ 500,000 to construct and could process 75,000 quarts of milk per day. The building is noted for its façade of white glazed terracotta , which is ornately designed in
24-423: A French style. Its walls are brick with steel frame covered with concrete. The entire building was built to be vermin-proof and fire-proof. Its bottling room had a 27-foot ceiling with a skylight and large dome. It was acquired by Columbia in 1949 as part of a $ 12,000,000 expansion plan for its School of Engineering and Applied Science , and since the 1950s has hosted the university's Computer Music Center . During
36-740: A vice president of the Sheffield Farms Company in charge of sales and advertising, after thirty years with the company. Joseph A. Mulvihill and Michael J. Mulvihill worked for the company from the 1890's to 1950 in the New York City and Jamaica plants. There was also a store in Rockaway during the summer months. Since 1964, the Sheffield buildings on West 57th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in Manhattan have been
48-523: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a university or college in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sheffield Farms The Sheffield Farms–Slawson–Decker Company , known as Sheffield Farms , was a dairy that pasteurized, bottled, and delivered milk in New York City in the first half of the 20th century. It became one of
60-785: The Manhattan Project , Prentis Hall housed the Heat Transfer Research Facility, which performed may critical heat flux tests in order to determine the temperature a nuclear reactor would melt down . The building was investigated, along with Pupin Hall , in either 1967 or 1977 by the Energy Research and Development Administration for possible radiation contamination. Prentis Hall houses the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer ,
72-423: The Sheffield herd of Mahwah, New Jersey , produced superior milk, which in turn made fine butter. He began marketing the butter in his spare time in the city and, by 1880, had given up the law to devote himself to the dairy trade. His first innovation was to design a covered milk wagon that protected fluid milk from dust. Halsey trained other farmers to improve the quality of their milk and bought milk only from
84-788: The best herds . In 1892, he installed the first pasteurizing machine in the United States , imported from Germany , at Sheffield Farms’ Bloomville, New York plant. The following year, pasteurization was demonstrated at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago . Commercial milk pasteurization was introduced in Baltimore in 1893, but Cincinnati is credited with the first large-scale pasteurization program in America. New York City followed in 1898, although pasteurization
96-405: The first programmable music synthesizer, which takes up an entire office wall. It was moved from RCA by to the university by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky , who helped design the instrument, and pioneers of electronic music. 40°48′59″N 73°57′34″W / 40.8165°N 73.9595°W / 40.8165; -73.9595 This article about a building or structure in New York
108-438: The largest dairy companies in the world, selling 20% of the city's milk. The company played a major part in transforming commercial milk into a clean and healthy product. L. B. Halsey, a lawyer who married Sarah Frances Sheffield (daughter of the late John H. and Anne Maria Sheffield), became interested in the dairy business when called upon to help deliver his widowed mother-in-law’s butter. Through careful selection and breeding,
120-498: The new firm’s president: a post he held until his death in 1926. At that time, Sheffield Farms Co. (the name was eventually shortened from Sheffield Farms–Slawson–Decker) was the largest dairy products company in the world, with nearly 2,000 retail routes and over 300 stores, mostly in New York City. Just before his death, Horton had sold the company to the National Dairy Products Corporation . It
132-502: Was formed in 1923 as a merger of several dairy concerns and continued to grow through acquisitions, the most important of which was the addition of Sheffield Farms. Others included Breyers Ice Cream, also purchased in 1926, and Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation, in 1930. All of the companies continued to operate independently, marketing products under their recognized brand names. In 1969, National Dairy Products became Kraftco and then Kraft in 1976. Horace S. Tuthill, Jr. retired in 1950 as
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#1732780393693144-419: Was not required for some years. Slawson Brothers entered the milk distribution business in 1866. Loton H. Horton (April 22, 1852 – December 15, 1926), a Slawson on his mother’s side, began driving a milk wagon for his uncle when he was 16. He quickly rose to lead the company, becoming a partner at the age of 21 and principal owner in 1898. When the company merged with T. W. Decker and Sheffield Farms, he became
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