Cooper Union Foundation Building

Cooper Union Foundation Building

Year

1859

Type

building

Fred A. Petersen's brownstone-and-brick composition for Peter Cooper's free educational institution was one of the first buildings in America to use rolled iron beams throughout its structure, a radical innovation that anticipated steel-fra …

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