244 Greene Street | university, 1897_construction

 university, 1897_construction

8-story university building completed in 1897, also known as 21 Washington Place. Designed by Robert Maynicke as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in tan brick above a 2-story stone base with black cast-iron infill. The base is capped by a dentiled stone cornice. The windows are grouped in pairs on the long 6-bay Greene Street facade, and a trio of windows make up each floor on the narrow Washington Place side. The 3rd- and 4th-floor windows have played brick lintels with keystones. A carved stone cornice tops the 4th and 7th floors, and dentiled string courses run beneath the windows, between the piers, on the 6th & 7th floors. The top floor has carved stone capitals on the piers, and paired brackets between the tops of each window. The building is crowned by a copper roof cornice with stone dentils.

It was acquired by NYU in 1954, and currently houses the NYU English Department. In 1996, NYU's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Student services opened at this location.

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