9 Then on November 24, 2003, the Preservation League of New York State listed the structure on its "Seven to Save" register. From October 12-13, 2003, The New York Times printed a 2-part, 2300-word Op-Ed piece on 2 Columbus Circle by Tom Wolfe, in which he argued the significance of Edward Durell Stone as an architect and 2 Columbus Circle as an architecturally significant building. 8īy 2003, the preservation efforts to save 2 Columbus Circle greatly increased. 7 Then, on April 14, 2000, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Historic Districts Council, and the Municipal Art Society co-sponsored a rally in front of 2 Columbus Circle to raise awareness for its preservation. 6īy March 7, 2000, the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, a neighborhood group, led a preservation charge to try and preserve 2 Columbus Circle.
The press covered the preservation battle extensively. These groups appealed to the Commission, organized rallies, petitions, and letter writing campaigns. 5 As a result of this decision, in the years that followed, many preservation and civic-minded organizations launched campaigns to oppose the redesign of 2 Columbus Circle, and to rally for landmark designation of the structure. Pike, Professor Sarah Bradford Landau, Charles Sachs, and Vicki Match Suna) on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission decided that 2 Columbus Circle did not possess enough architectural or historical significance to warrant a public hearing to discuss the building's potential for landmark designation. The future preservation of 2 Columbus Circle was first threatened in June 1996, when a four-member designation committee (composed of Reverend Thomas F. October 2005: Landmark West! mounts the 2 Columbus Circle "ShameCam," a webcam positioned in an apartment window at 25 Central Park West with a view south towards 2 Columbus Circle, to document the scaffolding going up around the building.Ģ006: 2 Columbus Circle is redesigned with a new facade by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture and converted into the Museum of Arts and Design. June 21, 2005: The building is placed on World Monuments Fund's Watch List of "100 Most Endangered Historic Places" list. May 24, 2004: The National Trust for Historic Preservation adds 2 Columbus Circle to the list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. May 2004: Landmark West! launches a "Save 2 Columbus Circle" website. November 24, 2003: The Preservation League of New York State lists the structure on its "Seven to Save" register.
June 1996: A four-member committee of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission determines that 2 Columbus Circle did not have enough historical or architectural significance to have a hearing to discuss its eligibility for landmark designation.Īpril 14, 2000: The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Historic Districts Council, and the Municipal Art Society co-sponsor a rally in front of 2 Columbus Circle to raise awareness for its preservation. In 1980, the Gulf & Western Foundation deeded 2 Columbus Circle as a gift to the City of New York, on the condition that the City used the building solely as “its principal public facility for visitors’ services and cultural affairs.” The City used it as a visitors’ center and headquarters for the Department of Cultural Affairs until the agency moved out in 1998 the space then remained vacant until 2006, when the structure was redesigned and converted into the Museum of Arts and Design. 3 In 1969, the museum was given to Fairleigh Dickinson University and converted into the New York Cultural Center, with the purpose of “present the contributions of all races.” Fairleigh Dickinson University ran the building until 1975 and held many art exhibitions. 2 Ada Louise Huxtable, then the architecture critic of The New York Times, memorably characterized the structure as resembling “a die-cut Venetian palazzo on lollipops. 1 It was designed in the romantic modernist style, and boasted marble cladding, Venetian motifs, and a curved facade. The architect Edward Durell Stone designed this building for the Gallery of Modern Art. It was built by Huntington Hartford, heir to the A&P supermarket fortune, to house his own art collection and serve as a bulwark in his passionate fight against abstract art. 2 Columbus Circle opened in 1964 as the Gallery of Modern Art.
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