page_title: Computer Music Center
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: Computer Music Center / Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Columbia University's Prentis Hall, home of the Computer Music Center, originally built as a Sheffield Farms milk plant. West 125th Street in the Manhattanville neighborhood of New York City.
context_page_description: The Computer Music Center at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. It was founded in the 1950s as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
context_section_description: The building at 632 West 125th Street, named Prentis Hall, was erected in 1906. It has six floors and covers 121,752 square feet (11,311.1 m²). The building, a milky-white terracotta former Sheffield Farms milk bottling plant, has been slated for renovation as part of a multibillion-dollar Columbia University expansion of its 17-acre Manhattanville campus. Columbia acquired it in 1949 and once used it for a chemical engineering laboratory. The architect was Frank A. Rooke.
caption: Sheffield Farms dairy plant in West 125th Street, Manhattanville, New York
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