Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South | also 249 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1972
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- 1966
NYU founds a Near Eastern studies center named for Armenian-American art dealer Hagop Kevorkian
Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962) was born in Kayseri, studied at Robert College in Istanbul and settled in New York, where he dealt in Islamic and Persian art. He ran commercial excavations in Persia, at Sultanabad from 1903 and at Rey from about 1907. The center at New York University that carries his name was created in 1966 to study the modern Middle East.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1972
Philip Johnson and Richard Foster finish their last NYU building, a dark granite block at Sullivan Street
The Kevorkian Center was designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster and built between 1969 and 1972 for New York University. It was the fourth and final NYU building the two architects produced. Its dark granite walls have no windows on the lower two floors facing the street, and its height was matched to the neighboring buildings.
- 2013
The South Village Historic District takes in the Kevorkian Center, which preservationists fought to include
On December 17, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the South Village Historic District, and the Kevorkian Center at the corner of Washington Square South and Sullivan Street was among its buildings. Village Preservation had pressed hard to have it and NYU's Vanderbilt Hall added after both were first left out. The group's account notes that architecture critic Paul Goldberger judged the stark Philip Johnson design an urbanistic success.
Source: Village Preservation
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