Studebaker Building (Columbia University)

[3] The former Studebaker automobile finishing plant, complete with a freight elevator, was constructed in 1923.

The blue Studebaker logo used between 1912 and 1934 is still visible on the southwest corner near the top.

[5] Originally built as a finishing plant, it was later used to store and distribute cars and parts manufactured in South Bend, Indiana, as a sales and services headquarters for the company.

[8][9] Later it was home to various warehouses (e.g. for the American Museum of Natural History), offices, and small manufacturing facilities such as the Madame Alexander doll company and Scientific Prototypes which manufactured sirens for every NYPD police vehicle from 1979 until 1989.

[2] In the late 1980s, Columbia University began to rent office space there, and subsequently bought the building.