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Schools, campuses, and educational institutions that preserve the city's pedagogical architecture across neighborhoods and eras.
Schools and campuses give educational institutions a place in Manhattan's architectural history. Compare neighborhood school buildings with the larger compositions of City College and Columbia's Casa Italiana.
21 building histories
Educational · 1858
432 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Actors Studio building, constructed as a small neighborhood church for the Seventh Associate Presbyterians, shortly after the congregation purchased the land in 1858, is a fine and rare example of a vernacular Greek...
Read the storyEducational · 1928
304 East 44th Street, New York, NY
Founded in 1893 by American architects who had studied at the prestigious Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects had a profound impact on architectural practice in this country by its...
Read the storyEducational · 1926-27
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Casa Italiana, a neo-Italian Renaissance style institutional building, was designed as a center for Italian studies by the prestigious architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. Built in 1926-27, it is located on the,...
Read the storyEducational · c. 1906
Amsterdam Avenue & West 140th Street, New York, NY
The story of the founding of the College of the City of New York begins with the story of Townsend Harris who was born in the village of Sandy Hill In Washington County, New York, on October 4, 1804. He grew up in this...
Read the storyEducational · 1908-09
160 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
The Pratt New York Phoenix School of Design, a five-story brick and stone neo-Classical institutional building, is located on the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 30th Street. Built in 1908-09, it was designed...
Read the storyEducational · 1904-06
605 East 9th Street, New York, NY
(Former) Public School 64 was designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder in the French Renaissance Revival style and built in 1904-06. This was a period of tremendous expansion and construction of new schools due...
Read the storyEducational · 1905-07
345 East 15th Street, New York, NY
The former Stuyvesant High School was built in 1905-07 as Manhattan's first "manual training" public school for boys, one of the educational reforms brought about by William H. Maxwell, first Superintendent of Schools...
Read the storyEducational · 1853-59
30 Cooper Square, New York, NY
The main building of Cooper Union is one of those proud buildings on the American Scene which may rightly take its place with the pioneer buildings of all lands. It was here that innovations were made both in the...
Read the storyEducational · 1894-96
466 West End Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1894-96 and opened in 1896, Grammar School No. 9 is the oldest known extant public school, as well as one of the few remaining nineteenth-century institutional buildings, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....
Read the storyEducational · 1893-94
120 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The High School of the Performing Arts, formerly Public School 67, is a handsome Romanesque Revival style building originally built to serve a large residential community on the west side of Manhattan. The school is the...
Read the storyEducational · 1916
165 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing was built in 1916 to the design of architects G[eorge]. A. & H[enry]. Boehm. Louis Chalif (1876-1948), born in Odessa, Russia, and trained in ballet there, immigrated to the...
Read the storyEducational · 1912-13
7 East 96th Street, New York, NY
There is an air of gaiety and frivolous vitality in the architectural character of this French Renaissance townhouse, that is both refreshing and stimulating. Typically French are not only the plan of this four-story...
Read the storyEducational · 1924-26
465 West 135th Street, New York, NY
The New York Training School for Teachers/New York Model School was built in 1924-26 to the design of William H. Gompert, Architect and Superintendent of School Buildings for the Board of Education, and prominently...
Read the storyEducational · 1909-12
1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
The impressive splendor of the Duke mansion is achieve through the simple grandeur of the French Classical style of Louis XV. It was designed in 1909 by the well-known architect, Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia. He...
Read the storyEducational · 1855
34 East 12th Street, New York, NY
Located on the south side of East 12th Street between Broadway and University Place, this building originally housed Grammar School 47, which was one of the first New York City schools built exclusively for the...
Read the storyEducational · 1897-99
132 West 89th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1897-99, Public School 166 is one of the few remaining nineteenth-century institutional buildings, and one of the oldest extant public schools, on the Upper West Side. The school was designed by New York's...
Read the storyEducational · 1879-82
1674 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1879-82, Public School 72 was the work of David I. Stagg, whose career in public school architecture spanned more than half a century and who was Superintendent of Public School Buildings for the New York City...
Read the storyEducational · 1890
20 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Institute as we see it today is the result of two major construction campaigns resulting in a coherent and sensitive design solution which blends monumental Beaux-Arts classicism with...
Read the storyEducational · 1878
120 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The New York House and School of Industry is a two-story brick building designed in the Queen Anne style by Sidney V. Stratton. Erected in 1878 on West 16th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, this unusual...
Read the storyEducational · 1913-17
55 East 84th Street, New York, NY
The Regis High School is five stories high, built of stone, and functionally designed to meet the needs of urban education. It presents an appearance of classic monumentality because of the rows of Ionic columns that...
Read the storyEducational · 1901-02
215 West 114th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1901-02, the Wadleigh High School for Girls was designed by the prominent school architect C.B.J. Snyder, and is one of his most sophisticated and innovative secondary school designs. The first public girls'...
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