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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Arts was founded in 1859. The institution began as a night school hosting courses in architectural drafting and the applied sciences, also hosting day-time classes in the Female School of Design instructing women in then-new technologies such as photography, telegraph, and typewriting. Peter Cooper's humble beginnings inspired a pedagogical model that offered working-class men and women upward mobility, at the same time instilling a sense of social responsibility that would create highly active citizens.
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41 Cooper Square | Block : 462 | Lot #1 Building Date : 2009 Original Use : Institutional Original Owner : The Cooper Union Original Architect : Thom Mayne Description & Building Alterations Built in 2009 for Cooper Union, the new metal and glass building that is here now stands on the location of the old Tompkins Market Armory. In 1855, the Seventh Regiment signed an agreement with a group of butchers to share a new facility, the Tompkins Market Armory (1856-60) on a site that formerly had been occupied by a wooden market structure completed in 1830.
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Manhattan: 3rd Avenue - 6th Street (East) Third Avenue, east side, from East 6th to 7th Streets, the site of Tompkins Market and Armory. This view shows the Hall Place and East 7th Street side of zone. the building was erected in 1860 for the Seventh Regiment. A new Armory was erected in 1877-1880 between Park and Lexington Avenues, between 66th and 67th Sts for this organization. Meanwhile, the 69th Regiment, organized in 1852, has been meeting here. In the basement are the drill-rooms. On the first floor are markets; on the second floor, ten company-rooms and offices; and on the third floor a drill-room. The Abram S. Hewitt Memorial (Cooper Union Annex) building was later erected here, the market being discontinued and the 69th moving to their new Armory on Lexington Avenue between East 25th and 26th Streets. About 1895 Gift of Urbrook Collection
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7th and 69th Regiment Armory, Cooper Square, New York City, 1908.
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Manhattan: 3rd Avenue - 6th Street Third Avenue, east side, between 6th and 7th Streets, at Cooper Square, showing demolition of the old Tompkins Market Armory, originally built in 1860 for the Seventh Regiment, and long occupied by the 69th. On its site will be erected the Abram S. Hewitt Memorial Building. 1909 Ewing Galloway, Photographer
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3rd Avenue and 6th Street. Cooper Union Annex Building.
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East 8th Street and Third Avenue. Cooper Union. Students at Cooper Union working in lab
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Graffiti, Cooper Union Hewitt Building (demolished), corner of 7th Street & Taras Schevchenko Place, looking west towards Cooper Union Foundation Building
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