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Peter Cooper wanted to provide educational opportunities for all citizens
regardless of class. Therefore, he established a
school of higher learning with a mandate to provide free schooling and
training for working-class students. Augustus Saint Gaudens, the
sculptor, remembered Cooper coming by his workbench when he was a youth,
suggesting that the young cameo jeweler attend night classes at the Cooper
Union. Cooper is memorialized by Saint Gaudens who build a monument to the
philanthropist in front of the brownstone, round-arched
building designed by a German-born architect.
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