NYU Silver Center for Arts & Science

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / Washington Square East, 100
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157-foot, 10-story university building completed in 1896. Designed by Alfred Zucker, the Silver Center for Arts & Science contains New York University faculty offices and classrooms, as well as the Grey Art Gallery. Built on the site of the earlier University Building, it was constructed as a loft building with the American Book Co. on the bottom 7 floors, and NYU graduate and professional schools on the 8th to 10th floors. NYU took over the entire building after WWI. It was also used for the NYU School of Law in 1947 at 32 Waverly Place.

It is clad in buff-colored brick, stone and terra-cotta. The north and south facades are seven bays wide (all with paired windows except for the westernmost bay), and the west facade has five center bays of paired windows (triples on the 2nd floor) with end sections of four windows each. Stone cornices top the 2nd, 7th & 8th floors, with a large, green, dentiled and modillioned metal roof cornice featuring two triangular pediments at the ends. The shafts of these two end sections are framed by brick quoins, with grooved pilasters between the windows on the 8th-9th floors. At the center section of these floors the windows are deeply recessed, with fluted columns framing each pair. The white-painted ground floor also has large fluted columns at the outer sections, and another pair of columns flanking the central entrance.

The building is named after the Silver family which has been a major donor to NYU; most recently giving $150M in a bequest from Julius Silver in 2002.

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In this building

  1. Elstein Student Lounge
  2. Hemmerdinger Hall
  3. Silverstein Lounge
  4. Heights Campus Overlook
  5. Grey Fine Arts Library
  6. Jurow Lecture Hall
  7. Lewent Lounge
  8. Abby Weed Grey Department of Art History
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Coordinates:   40°43'49"N   73°59'44"W

Comments

  • The traditional name of thhe building is "Main."
  • Former location of the Triangle Factory!
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