Gallery
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The Cooper Union's Foundation Building has anchored the north end of the square since 1859
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The monument to Peter Cooper sits between the Foundation Building and the park at Cooper Triangle
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#61: This building was built in 1867 as a bank, but has been a church since 1937. (New York City Landmark, 1969)
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#41: Cooper Union's New Academic Building, designed by Thom Mayne, opened in Summer 2009
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#35: The modest building on the left was owned in the early 19th century by a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant. It was demolished for new construction.
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#25: The luxury Cooper Square Hotel, an ultra-modern 21-story tower, opened in 2008
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#36: As of December 2012, houses the headquarters of The Village Voice and of digital firms including foursquare, Curbed.com and 9Threads.
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#72: Although it has a Lafayette Street address (#445), this condominium building, designed by Charles Gwathmey and completed in 2004, also sits on Cooper Square at what would be #72.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)