New School - 64 5th Avenue (New York City, New York)

8-story university building completed in 1924. Designed by R.H. Robertson for the MacMillan Publishing Company, who also occupied the building next door at 60 Fifth Avenue. Today the building houses the the famous Parsons School of Design which altered the front exterior lower level. It later served home to the Martha Graham Dance Studio in the 1930s and 40s

The building is clad in red brick, with round arches below cornices at the 4th and 6th stories. The top two floors are remodeled later, and are slightly set back, rising vertically from sloping, almost mansard-like sides. These top two floors are clad in white brick. When built, the cellar of this interesting red-brick building was flooded by Minetta Creek, the Village's underground river.

Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons) is a design school affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University. Parsons is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States. Parsons has approximately 3,100 undergraduates and more than 400 graduate students enrolled. Parsons is the setting for the Bravo reality television program Project Runway.

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Coordinates:  40°44'6"N 73°59'40"W

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