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Center on the Square (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Washington Square North, 20
 Federal style (architecture), 1820s construction

4-story Federal-style completed in 1829 as a 3.5-story mansion for George Rogers. It was widened with a new fifth bay on the west, and a fourth story added in 1880 to a design by Henry J. Hardenbergh that converted the mansion into four luxury apartments.

It is clad in red brick above a stone basement. At the top of the central stoop, the arched front doorway is generously proportioned and has a handsome multiple keystone and rustication blocks at the jambs, all vermiculated. The basement windows are similarly designed. Imposing stone balustrades originally served as handrailings at the stoop, but were replaced by iron rails in the 1960s. The windows display attractively proportioned Federal lintels, with vermiculated blocks at the ends and a small cornice, stepped up at the center. The top story has round-arched windows with vermiculated keystones and impost blocks, echoing the doorway and connected by a stone band course. The whole is surmounted by a dentiled cornice with triglyphs in the frieze.

June 23, 1936 marked the end of the mansion’s residential use. New York University leased the building from the Rhinelander Estate to be renovated into the administrative center of the Division of General Education. The facility would provide space for the developing adult education program which was in its infancy. Six years later, the building was sold to St. Joseph’s Academy, a school. The renovated building had nine classrooms, music room, library, chapel and gymnasium. In the 1990s, the building was home to the Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace, an organization of 16 religious communities formed in 1991 to address issues of peace and justice.

Today it houses Center on the Square, an activity center for seniors run by The Caring Community.

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