New York
Architecture Images-Lower East Side
Cooper Union Foundation Building |
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architect |
Frederick A. Peterson | ||||||||
location |
Cooper Square (East 7th St. to Astor Place) | ||||||||
date |
1859 | ||||||||
style |
Rundbogenstil (German round-arched neo-Romanesque) | ||||||||
construction |
Brownstone, steel frame (oldest standing steel framed building in America) | ||||||||
type |
Education | ||||||||
notes |
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Cooper Union
in the 11th (1911) edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Cooper Union Foundation Building, Astor
Place, NYC
Stereoptycon view of "Cooper Union at the Head of the Famous Bowery, New York." Published by Geo. W. Griffith, Philadelphia, Pa., 1902-03. Looking down at the Third Avenue Elevated train track and trains over the Bowery passing the Cooper Union. Stereoview "Cooper Union, New York": Alfred S. Campbell ©1896
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Postcards, circa 1905
1905 Rotograph
1910s Vol. 25
July MCMIXNo.
1
LITTLE JOURNEYS Done into a book by the Roycrofters
I am convinced that when a true American System of
Finance is adopted The American People and Government cannot too
constantly remember [Engraved expressly for the "Irish World" - February 27, 1860. |
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