All images, unless indicated, are courtesy of the New York University Archives.

Thanks goes out to Nancy Cricco, New York University Archivist, and Janet Bunde, Assistant University Archivist.

Archival Sources

The Administrative Papers of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken

The Administrative Papers of Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown

The Administrative Papers of President James McNaughton Hester

Records of the Office of the University Architect/Joseph J. Roberto Collection

The Marcel Breuer Papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art

New York University Archives Photo Collection

New York University Archives Buildings Collection

New York University Archives Subject and Bio Files

The Daily Heights, the University Heights student newspaper

The Violet, the University Heights yearbook

Historical New York Times, 1851-2005

Publications

Baker, Paul R. Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White. New York: The Free Press, 1989.

Bender, Thomas. New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Chronopoulos, Themis. “Urban Decline and the Withdrawal of New York University from University Heights, Bronx.” Bronx Historical Society Journal. Vol. XLVI, Nos 1 and 2 (Spring/Fall 2009), pp 4-24.

Dolkart, Andrew S. “Gould Memorial Library.” Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1981.

Engber, Daniel. “A Plan to Restore a Gem by Stanford White.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. (March 25, 2005), pp 8-9.

Farkas, Diane A. and Robert N. Farkas. “Henry Mitchell MacCracken and the Hall of Fame at New York University.” Bronx Historical Society Journal.  Vol. VIII, No. 2 (July 1971), pp 51-63.

Frusciano, Thomas J. and Marilyn H. Pettit. New York University and the City. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Gatje, Robert F. Marcel Breuer: A Memoir. New York: Monacelli Press, Inc., 2000.

Geiger, Roger, ed. The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.

Hyman, Isabelle. Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.

Jones, Theodore Francis, ed. New York University, 1832-1932. New York: New York University Press, 1933.

Jonnes, Jill. We’re Still Here: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the South Bronx. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.

Jordy, William H. American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume IV. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Lowe, David Garrard. Stanford White’s New York. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

MacCracken, Henry M., and Sihler, Ernest G. “Seventy Years: A History of New York University.” In Chamberlain, Joshua L. University and Their Sons: New York University, vol. I.  Boston: R. Herndon and Company, 1901.

Radloff, Barbara. “The Financial Woes of NYU.” Change Vol. 4, No. 8 (Oct. 1972), pp 15-18.

Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.

Rubin, Richard. “The Mall of Fame.” The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1997), pp 14-18.

Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 2004.

Veysey, Laurence R. The Emergence of the American University. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Websites

Timeline of New York University History

Lehman College Art Gallery: Architecture/Bronx Community College