Sherred Hall (General Theological Seminary) (New York City, New York) | school, Neo-Gothic (architecture), 1884_construction

 school, seminary, Neo-Gothic (architecture), 1884_construction

4-story Neo-Gothic school building completed in 1884 as the first of the master campus plan buildings for the General Theological Seminary (the old East and West Buildings were completed earlier in the century). Like all the new buildings along 21st Street, Sherred Hall was designed by Charles Coolidge Haight. Above a ground floor of stone, it is clad in red brick, with a central tower section rising to a triangular pediment, and two wings topped by stone cornices. The the center of the roof is a small domed circular tower. On the 2nd floor of each of the wings are two pairs of Gothic arched windows. The floors above have large multipaned windows with stone lintels. At the top floor of the center section is a large round-arched triple window with stained glass. One floor below is a smaller stained glass triple window in a square frame. Brick chimneys peek up from the slate roof. Sherred Hall houses classrooms and maintenance offices. Like all the neighboring seminary buildings, the entrance is on the south side, facing the quad.