Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900
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- 1892
Schickel & Ditmars design a store annex for R. H. Macy & Co.
Architects Schickel & Ditmars designed an R. H. Macy & Co. store annex at 55 West 13th Street, built in 1891-92 and now The New School's Arnhold Hall. The firm, founded in 1885 as William Schickel & Company, drew considerable German-American patronage and concentrated on Roman Catholic churches and institutional buildings. Its commercial work also included the Ehrich Brothers Emporium on Sixth Avenue and another Macy's annex on West 14th Street.
“R.H. Macy & Co. Store Annex, 55 13th Street, New York City, New York (1891-1892), now Arnhold Hall of The New School…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1902
Macy's leaves 14th Street for Herald Square, leaving red stars on the facade
The building was one of 11 that R. H. Macy & Co. put up near its original Sixth Avenue and 14th Street dry-goods store, which had opened in 1858. In 1902 Macy's moved to Herald Square and gathered its 13th and 14th Street stores into one large building. Five emblems with faded red stars, the company's logo, were still visible on the 13th Street facade in 2014.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 2014
The New School closes the Fogelman Library here, but Kara Walker's mural stays
The Raymond Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanities Library, the New School's flagship, had moved into the building after 65 Fifth Avenue was demolished, a move that angered student activists who wanted more study space. It closed on November 26, 2014, and its collection moved to 6 East 16th Street. Several works from the university's art collection stayed put, among them Kara Walker's wraparound mural Event Horizon, her first permanent public commission.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
The Mannes School of Music moves from the Upper West Side into the building
In fall 2015 the Mannes School of Music, a conservatory founded in 1916 by David Mannes and Clara Damrosch, left its Upper West Side home to be with the rest of The New School's campus at Arnhold Hall. It joined the university in 1989 and is part of its College of Performing Arts, which also takes in the drama school and the jazz and contemporary music school.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2018
John Zorn's experimental-music club The Stone moves into the building's Glass Box Theatre
Zorn, who founded The Stone in April 2005, announced in December 2016 that it would close in February 2018. That month it moved to the Glass Box Theatre on the ground floor of Arnhold Hall, at 55 West 13th Street, from its home at Avenue C and Second Street. The new space has windows onto the street and the lobby, with a Sol LeWitt mural at the entrance and a Kara Walker mural across from the theater.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanities LibraryWikipedia
- The 13th Street building that used to be Macy’sEphemeral New York
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