Pless Hall (New York City, New York) | university

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7-story university building completed in 1896. Designed by Boehm & Coon, it is clad in buff-colored brick and limestone. Both facades have four wide arched bays of three windows each, plus another two-bay extension of differing design on the north side. These two bays Greek fret-motif bands lining the brick piers all the way up to the arches at the 6th floor. The bands continue over the arches in a radial fashion, with large scrolled keystone topping each arch, and stone cartouches capping each pier. The arched-bays on the main section have plain limestone banding on the 3rd floor, and narrow triple or quadruple columns spanning the 5th-6th floor, with their Corinthian capitals supporting the bases of the arches. These arches are stone, with intricate carvings above them. Every bay has three windows separated by slender cast-iron columns, and with carved spandrel panels between each floor. A dentiled stone cornice caps the 2nd & 6th floors. The top floor has individual round-arches, three to each bay, with small Corinthian columns between them, and scrolled keystone at each arch's peak. Both facades are crowned by a bracketed metal roof cornice, which is slightly larger on the 2-bay extension at the east side of the north facade. On the west facade, the southermost two windows bricked-in at each floor.

NYU acquired the building in 1936.

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