Gallatin School Building (715 Broadway)

715 Broadway | also 719 Broadway, 1 Washington Place | NoHo | built 1896

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1847

    The New York Hotel opens on Broadway between Washington and Waverly Places

    In 1847 the New York Hotel opened on Broadway between Washington Place and Waverly Place, the block front this building now fills. The Landmarks Preservation Commission treats the opening as the moment commerce pushed north past Houston Street. The Astor Place Opera House followed in 1849 and Tripler's Music Hall in 1850, and by the Civil War this stretch of Broadway was the city's entertainment district. The hotel is an earlier building on this block.

    “…reached beyond Houston Street in 1847 with the opening of the New York Hotel on Broadway between Washington Place and Waverly Place…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1894

    Lawyer Randolph Guggenheimer commissions a Broadway building for stores and offices

    Randolph Guggenheimer, a prominent attorney who lived at 923 Fifth Avenue, had the Broadway block built for stores and offices. He was senior partner in the law firm Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall. The builder was Isaac A. Hopper, and the project went up at a time when earlier five- and six-story lofts on the street were being replaced by taller commercial buildings.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1896

    Robert Maynicke's twelve-story Renaissance Revival building fills the Broadway block front at Washington Place

    Built in 1894-96 to a design by Robert Maynicke, the stores-and-offices building rises twelve stories on a steel and cast-iron frame faced in limestone, brick and terra cotta. Its two-story limestone base has rough-faced piers and Broadway porticos with freestanding granite Ionic columns. The block runs between Washington Place and Waverly Place and reaches back to Mercer Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1896

    Architect Robert Maynicke, who learned iron-and-steel construction under George B. Post, designs the block

    Born in Germany, Robert Maynicke studied at Cooper Union and by the early 1870s worked for George B. Post, studying iron and steel structure and supervising early elevator buildings and the construction of the New York Times Building on Park Row. He stayed with Post until 1895, the year before this Broadway building was finished. After he joined Julius Franke in 1905, Maynicke & Franke designed over 100 large commercial buildings in the city.

    “Maynicke remained with Post until 1895. By 1905, Maynicke joined in partnership with Julius Franke…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 1972

    The University Without Walls is founded, the school that became Gallatin and now fills the building

    NYU launched the University Without Walls in 1972. It became the Gallatin Division in 1976, named for NYU's founder Albert Gallatin, and took the name Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1995. Its first dean, Herbert London, served until 1992. Students design their own concentrations, and the school is based at 1 Washington Place, the corner of this Broadway building.

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 1976

    The University Without Walls is renamed the Gallatin Division for NYU's founder

    Four years after it began as the University Without Walls, the school took the name Gallatin Division in 1976, honoring Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's treasury secretary and the founder of New York University. Herbert London served as its first dean, a post he held through 1992. In 1995 the school adopted its present name, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with students designing their own concentrations instead of choosing a major.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 1999

    June 29

    The city designates the NoHo Historic District, which takes in this Broadway block

    On June 29, 1999, the Landmarks Preservation Commission issued its designation report for the NoHo Historic District, which includes Robert Maynicke's block-long building at 715-727 Broadway. Donald G. Presa prepared the report, with an architects' appendix by Virginia Kurshan and photographs by Carl Forster. The report names Maynicke's Renaissance Revival office building, put up in 1894-96, among the district's noteworthy 1890s buildings.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  8. 2008

    Gallatin completes NYU's first LEED-certified renovation at 715 Broadway

    In 2007 and 2008 Gallatin renovated about 32,000 square feet of its home at 715 Broadway, the first NYU renovation to earn LEED certification. The work added a theatre, gallery spaces and a ground-floor lounge. The school reported that 85 percent of construction waste was diverted to recycling and that the new space uses 45 percent less water than its previous quarters.

    Source: Internet Archive

  9. 2011

    Dakota Fanning enrolls at Gallatin to study women's studies and film

    The actress Dakota Fanning attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University from 2011 to 2014. She majored in women's studies, with a focus on the portrayal of women in film and culture.

    Source: Wikipedia

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