Heyman Hall (New York City, New York)

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5-story NYU building housing the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies, as well as the Goldstein-Goren Center for American-Jewish History. Completed in 1877, and designed by John G. Prague, it is clad in red brick above a rusticated brownstone ground floor and basement. It has a short stoop and segmental-arched windows and doorway. The upper floors have square-headed windows with peaked brownstone lintels and sills with feet. There are four windows on both the 2nd & 3rd floors, with a large studio window spanning the 4th-5th floors on the right side, and a single window on the left side of both the 4th & 5th floors. The building is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets and rounded half-circles above each bracket. Built as a young men’s boarding house, this building housed the studios of American landscape painter George Inness. NYU acquired the building in 1935.