TOM FLETCHER'S
new york architecture

contact

part of the essential architecture network

FEATURES
NY Galleries
NY Walks
top ten new york architecture
Simon Fieldhouse renderings
America’s Favorite Architecture
 
Use of images.
Cooper Union Foundation Building New York Architecture Images-Lower East Side

Cooper Union Foundation Building Landmark

architect

 Frederick A. Peterson

location

 Cooper Square (East 7th St. to Astor Place)  

date

 1859

style

 Rundbogenstil (German round-arched neo-Romanesque)  

construction

 Brownstone, steel frame (oldest standing steel framed building in America)

type

 Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

notes

 Cooper Union Foundation Building Cooper Union Foundation BuildingAnyone interested in higher education in the arts, architecture, or engineering must know of this wonderful school, which provides full scholarships for all its students, along with an education unrivaled at any price.

Cooper Union in the 11th (1911) edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

Cooper Union Foundation Building, Astor Place, NYC

 


postcard, ca. 1915 (H. Finklestein & Son; The American Art Publishing Company, New York)
"Cooper Square where Fourth and Third Avenue merge into the Bowery. Cooper Union was founded by Peter Cooper in 1859. It is a free school of science and art with an endowment of $4,000,000. "

stereoptycon image of Cooper Union, 1903
Stereoptycon view of "Cooper Union at the Head of the Famous Bowery, New York." Published by Geo. W. Griffith, Philadelphia, Pa., 1902-03. Looking down at the Third Avenue Elevated train track and trains over the Bowery passing the Cooper Union.


Stereoview "Cooper Union, New York": Alfred S. Campbell ©1896

 



\


early 20th C. postcard of Cooper Union

Postcards, circa 1905
early 20th C. postcard of Cooper Union


1905 Rotograph



 



1910s


1915


Cooper Square, New York CityUnion News Company 1921


Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys: Peter Cooper

 Vol. 25 July   MCMIXNo. 1

LITTLE JOURNEYS
to the homes of great business men
by Elbert Hubbard

PETER COOPER

Done into a book by the Roycrofters
at their shop which is in East Aurora,
Erie County, New York,
MCMIX.
Single copies 10 cents - the year $1.00

 

Peter Cooper's 1876 Greenback Party presidential campaign poster
Peter Cooper's 1876 Greenback Party presidential campaign poster
(used as covers for 1952-53 Student Handbook)

I am convinced that when a true American System of Finance is adopted
which shall put all that circulates as Money entirely and exclusively under the
Control of the Government, MAKING IT RECEIVABLE FOR ALL DUTIES
AND DEBTS, Employment for all the Working Classes, and Prosperity for the
whole Country will be the natural and permanent result. - PETER COOPER.

The American People and Government cannot too constantly remember
that it is utterly impossible for us as a Nation to buy anything cheap from
foreign countries that must be bought at the expense of leaving our own good Raw Mate-
rials unused, and our own labor unemployed. - PETER COOPER.

[Engraved expressly for the "Irish World" -
Re-printed by the New York Mercantile Journal Co., 350 Pearl Street, New York]


Carte de visite photograph by Weber
(31 Union Square NYC)		 Peter Cooper
in the 11th (1911) edition of the
Encyclopædia Britannica

Peter Cooper
Royal Bengal Tobacco card,
Heroes of History Series.

Peter Cooper .
steel engraving of Peter Cooper ca. 1873
Peter Cooper
steel engraving by Geo. E. Perine, New York.
(from The American Cyclopædia;
A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge,
D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1873.)

Abraham Lincoln's

 

"Address at Cooper Institute"

February 27, 1860.

 

contact

nyc-architecture.com

links