NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York City, New York)

12-story Neo-Classical building completed in 1896. Designed by Robert Maynicke as an office and storage building for Randolph Guggenheimer. By 1910, most of the offices were converted into clothing factories. The building originally had larger ground-floor porticos on Broadway, but they were reduced after 1910. It was bought by NYU in 1965 and converted into an academic building. It was renovated in 2001 and then in 2007.

The building has frontages on all four surrounding streets, with a 2-story base of large stone piers, those at the end bays having rough stone rustications. Each pier is topped by three small circles, with a stone cornice running above the 2nd floor. The base has some dark-brown cast-iron infill, with wreaths and dentiles in the spandrel panels. The upper floors are clad in beige brick, with the transitional third floor capped by another stone cornice, and carved capitals on the piers. The windows are recessed in pairs, except for the center section facing Broadway, which has two large bays of cast-iron framed windows, each in a 2-3-2 configuration, with alternating spandrels of decorative swag or wreaths, and further ornament on the cast-iron pilasters - and one bay at the south end of the Mercer Street facade, which also has cast-iron infill.

At the 9th floor, the piers again have carved capitals, and a stone cornice runs across the top of the floor. The 10th floor has round columns separating the windows, and at the top two floors the entire facade is recessed between the piers, with round-arched windows on the top floor. The piers terminate in another set of carved capitals at the roof. There are two entrances on Broadway, with round-arched doorways under entablatures with cornices supported by polished granite Ionic columns.

New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, one of the country's leading art colleges--endowed by Preston Robert Tisch--, currently occupied the building. On the fourth floor is the ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), the nation's first technology arts program.

The interior was renovated in 2009 by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners which also restored the ground floor storefront level.

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