In 1930, The New School moved from its Chelsea location into a newly-constructed building at 66 West 12th Street in Greenwich Village. The structure was designed by Joseph Urban, with murals commissioned from José Clemente Orozco and Thomas Hart Benton. In 1955, the school undertook a project to add a structure onto the original building. The original Joseph Urban building was then renamed the Alvin Johnson Building (for Alvin Johnson, the New School's first and longstanding president), and the building added beside it was named the Kaplan Building (for philanthropist Jacob Kaplan). A courtyard and walkway was created to join these two buildings to 65 West 11th St., which was named the List Building (for donors Vera and Albert List). The project, completed in 1957, tripled the size of the original structure.