Andre and Bella Meyer Physics Hall

711 Broadway | also 2 Washington Place, 713 Broadway | NoHo | built 1971

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1966
Two mid-1800s buildings beside Broadway and Washington Place are demolished for New York University
The Landmarks Preservation Commission reports that two structures from the middle of the nineteenth century stood just north of an older store-and-loft building at 707-709 Broadway. They were demolished in 1966, and the older building was then extended northward onto their lot. The work appears to carry out a 1964 master plan for New York University by Johnson and Forster, which was never fully realized.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1971
New York University merges three buildings into the Andre and Bella Meyer Physics Hall
In 1971 New York University combined three buildings into one hall for physics. The two that faced Broadway were extensively altered and given red sandstone facing, while the building at 4-6 Washington Place was left intact. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists the hall's style as Modern and its date as a 1971 alteration.
“…result of combining three buildings in 1971 with extensive alterations to the two buildings that faced Broadway…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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