Founded in 1936, the archive moved to Podolsk in Moscow Oblast around 1946.
The ban's office, the court and the archives moved out of the building in 1807, when a building across St. Mark's Square was bought to accommodate them.
Mr. Thompson emphasized that the archives were not moving outside the institution per se.
Not long after this, the two-sites idea was scrapped and the archives and special collections will move to the site at Centenary Square.
In 1996, the archive moved to its present premises at the university's faculty of humanities on Mount Scopus.
Since the archive moved to its new location in 1971, the 1897 building has been used as a private library by Gerling, a large insurance company.
The archive moved to a new building at Hansaring in Mittelhufen, constructed by Robert Liebenthal from 1929 to 1930.
In 1989 the archives moved into a former car showroom premises on Shorham Street.
Mr. Emmerich's archives, library and some of the storage space will move to properties owned by Sotheby's.
The archives moved into the new building in 1942.