The first ever passenger-lift in the world was invented in 1863, but one building in Manhattan, NYC predicted the possible invention of something of that sort 4 years prior. The Cooper Foundation Building which hosts an art and architecture elite school built a vestibule for a lift or an elevator in 1859. This was the time when no one imagined of an automated passenger lift as an alternative to staircases. In the year 1863, the world's first lift was installed in another building in Manhattan, soon to be followed by the Cooper Building itself.