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.