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The facilities of Manhattan School of Music were designed especially
to address the needs of training performers. These facilities provide
for all phases of the student’s education and school life.
The main building — with an entrance at 601 West 122nd Street
at Broadway — houses spaces for instruction, performance,
dining, research, and study, as well as all administrative offices.
The campus also includes a residence hall, adjacent to the main
building, with a separate entrance located at 134 Claremont Avenue.
Campus History
“The four-building ensemble, built over nearly
a century, is one of the richest architectural compositions in
the city … [the new residence hall] is a dignified and intelligent
addition to the Manhattan School of Music complex, and gently
mixes both originality and tradition.”
— Christopher Gray for the New York Times
January 23, 2003
The main building dating 1910, was originally home to the Institute
of Musical Art, forerunner of The Juilliard School, designed by
Donn Barber in an Edwardian style, located on the northeast corner
of 122nd Street and Claremont Avenue. The 1930s brought vast expansion
to the existing building with the addition of seven stories on Claremont
Avenue expanding to Broadway and 122nd Street. The architect for
this expansion was Arthur L. Harmon, a member of the architectural
firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, best known for its design of the
Empire State Building. In 1969, when Manhattan School of Music relocated
from East 105th Street to Claremont Avenue and West 122nd Street,
the School retained the architects MacFadyen & Knowles for further
expansion and alterations. The double-height glass-roofed dining
hall, named the Mitzi Newhouse Pavilion, is a product of this expansion.
In 2001 the School added the G. Chris and SungEun Andersen Residence
Hall, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle.
G. Chris and SungEun Andersen Hall
This 19-story multi-use building totals 275,000 square feet and
incorporates a mixture of performance, academic, and residential
functions. It has created a dynamic vertical campus, inaugurated
in 2001, for Manhattan School of Music.
The five-story base of the building houses the William
R. and Irene D. Miller Recital Hall, the Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades
Performance Space, a lobby, campus store, box office, music
library, and practice rooms. The lobby and box office were designed
to be shared by the new performance spaces and the existing Borden
Auditorium and to provide ADA access to the existing facilities.
There are also individual Claremont Avenue lobbies for the residential
hall, office floors, and performance spaces. The Broadway façade
accommodates one level of parking, loading docks, and School-support
facilities, including a piano repair shop and storage space for
opera sets.
The tower consists of 12 floors of student residences, with a total
of 550 beds, in a combination of single rooms for graduate students
and doubles for undergraduates. Fifty-eight practice rooms are distributed
throughout the building. Formerly, student residences and practice
rooms were off-campus, dispersed among apartment buildings in the
neighborhood and beyond. The series of setbacks at the top two floors
create the terraces for the Peter Jay Sharp President’s Residence.
As both lovers of music and philanthropists, Manhattan School of
Music alumna and former trustee SungEun Han-Andersen and her husband,
G. Chris Andersen, have provided great support to many foundations
and organizations throughout the country. Their numerous contributions
to Manhattan School of Music have had a wide-reaching impact on
both the physical plant of the School and its academic programs.
For further details and information about our concert venues, including
our newly completed spaces, please visit our Performance
Spaces page.
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