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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is situated on the edge of Manhattan's East Village, easy walking distance of Washington Square Park and the bookstores, galleries and film houses of Greenwich Village. Campus Locations. Building Hours. See the academic calendar for days when buildings are closed.
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41 Cooper Square Building. (3rd Avenue between 6th and 7th...
- Foundation Building
The Foundation Building opened in 1859 and marked the...
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Contact. Administrative Offices 30 Cooper Square New York,...
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41 Cooper Square Building. (3rd Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets) View Map. Office of Enrollment/The HUB: Admissions, ISSO, Registrar, and Student Financial Services. 41 Cooper Square. (entrance on 6th Street) View Map. Directions. The Cooper Union is easily accessible by public transportation.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France.
The Foundation Building opened in 1859 and marked the creation of The Cooper Union. The building—today a New York City landmark—quickly became a common meeting place for intellectuals, inventors, tinkerers, and people from across the social strata.
41 Cooper Square, designed by architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis, is a nine-story, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) academic center that houses the Albert Nerken School of Engineering with additional spaces for the humanities, art, and architecture departments in the newest addition to Cooper Union's campus in Cooper Square, Manhattan, New York ...
Contact. Administrative Offices 30 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003 (212) 353-4100 Phone (212) 353-4327 Fax webmaster@cooper.edu
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The large brownstone Cooper Union is a private college offering degrees in architecture, fine arts and engineering; it was founded by glue millionaire Peter Cooper in 1859. The next year, Abraham Lincoln gave his 'Right Makes Might' speech condemning slavery in the college's Great Hall – a speech which some historians believe helped propel ...