NYU Kimball Hall

 university, Romanesque (architecture), 1892_construction

7-story Romanesque-revival university building completed in 1892 for Simon Goldenberg. Designed by Alfred Zucker as a store-and-loft building, its ground floor has grey brick with red stone rustications. The 2nd & 3rd floors use dark brown brick with lighter tan brick in a pattern mimicking larger stone blocks. Above a stone cornice, the darker-colored brick gives way to appearing only at the edges of the piers as quoins. The bays of windows (3 bays on the north side, 5 bays on the west) culminate in round-arches at the 6th floor. Above a smaller cornice, the top two floors have paired round-arches of cast-iron between the tan brick piers. The building is crowned on both facades by a bracketed roof cornice. The building became home to Asch & Jaeckel, wholesale furriers, whose large operation filled the entire building. The salesrooms were on the ground floor with factory, design and office spaces above.

It was acquired by NYU in 1956. In 2010, a major renovation created space for the NYU Steinhardt School Applied Psychology Department. Previously, the space had been used by NYU’s Steinhardt Nursing Program.

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