NYU Goddard Residence Hall (New York City, New York) | university, dormitory, historical building

 university, dormitory, historical building

7-story NYU residence hall completed in 1893 as a warehouse. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel, it has a 2-story base of buff-colored brick piers with rough stone banding, capped by a large stone cornice. The base has narrow cast-iron infill, with two windows per bay, and broad spandrel panels between the 1st & 2nd floors, with dark-red ornamental shapes and a dentiled band course across each spandrel. The 3rd-6th floors have brick piers with white stone quoins, topped by ornate capitals supporting round-arches at the 6th floor. Each arch spans a bay of three windows, with brick spandrels and mullions decorated with red terra-cotta. A corbelled cornice caps the 6th floor. The top floor has three smaller round-arches in each bay, with a dentiled string course across the top, and the whole building is crowned by a modillioned and dentiled roof cornice with paneled swag in the fascia board. The west facade is three bays wide, and the south facade spans five bays, with an additional single-window bay on the far east side. It has a round-arched, rusticated stone entry at the ground floor, a splayed lintel over the 4th-story window, and a full stone enframement around the 5th-story window. The building was originally occupied by hatmakers.

It was acquired by NYU in 1936 to become Paulette Goddard Residence Hall, formerly known as formerly known as the Lies Building and Stern Hall. The Goddard family also endowed the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy & Planning in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

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