School Design: Learning from History

Detail of Ben Shahn mural William Grady High School, Brooklyn

P.S. 34, Brooklyn Samuel B. Leonard, 1867 Former Boys’ High School, 832 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn James W. Naughton, 1891 Life of Erasmus window, 1912 Erasmus Hall Educational Campus J.H.S. 98 (Herman Ridder) 1619 Boston Post Road, Bronx Walter C. Martin, 1931 Gymnasium, J.H.S. 189 144-80 Barclay Avenue, Queens Michael L. Radoslovich, 1956 James Casebere Theater of Dionysus (350 BCE), 2006 Aarquitectonica and STV, Architects HS for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, Queens Bill and Mary Buchen Illya Bolotowsky, Untitled, 1941 Sound Playground, Theodore RooseveltI HS, Bronx 1992 Rendering of P.S. 34, Harrison & Abramowitz, 1953 James W. Naughton Superintendent of Buildings and Repairs for Brooklyn, 1879-1898 Designed over 100 school buildings in Brooklyn, including 10 NYC Designated Landmarks Styles include: . Victorian Gothic . French Second Empire . Romanesque Revival Former Boys’ High School, 832 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn James W. Naughton, 1891 P.S. 107, Brooklyn James W. Naughton, 1894 Charles B. J. Snyder

Superintendent of School Buildings, 1891-1922

Designed close to 350 schools, plus additions and renovations

18 projects are designated NYC landmarks P.S. 165, Manhattan Snyder, 1898 P.S. 63, 121 East Third Street, Manhattan Snyder, 1903 Morris Educational Campus C.B.J. Snyder, 1904 Wadleigh Secondary School C.B.J. Snyder, 1902 Former DeWitt Clinton High School C.B.J. Snyder, 1903, Renovation Rafael Vinoly 1988 Brooklyn Manual Training High School, 1904 PS. 277 519 St. Ann’s Avenue, Bronx C.B. J. Snyder, 1897 Detail of Board of Education Seal, P.S. 277, 519 St. Ann’s Avenue, Bronx C.B. J. Snyder, 1897 Principal’s platform P.S. 84, 22-45 41st St. Queens C.B.J. Snyder, 1904

Plaster cast of Luca della Robbia, Boys Playing on Trumpets, A panel from the Cantoria

Charles Yardley Turner Opening the , 1905 Barry Faulkner, Scenes from the Early History of Manhattan, 1916-21 HS, Manhattan C.B.J. Snyder, 1913 Morris Educational Campus C.B. J. Snyder, 1904 Lucienne Bloch The Evolution of Music, 1938 George Washington Educational Campus, Manhattan Lucienne Bloch, Evolution of Music, 1938 George Washington High School, Manhattan Maxwell Starr History of Mankind in Terms of Mental and Physical Labor, 1941

Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn ( Auditorium Lobby and detail shown) Aviation Career and Technical Education High School Chapman, Evans & Delehanty, 1958 Gwen Lux Vapor Trails, 1958 Aviation Career and Technical Education High School, Manhattan High School of Graphic Communication Arts Kelly & Gruzen, 1958 Hans Hofmann, Untitled, 1958 High School of Graphic Communication Arts 439 West 49th Street Ben Shahn Science and the Humanities, 1957 William E. Grady Career and Technical Education High School, Brooklyn Michael L. Radoslovich and Max Spivak The Tools of Education, 1956 J.H.S. 189, 144-80 Barclay Avenue Queens Gymnasium, J.H.S. 189 144-80 Barclay Avenue, Queens Michael L. Radoslovich, 1956 Rendering of P.S. 34, Manhattan Harrison & Abramowitz, 1953 Bruce Gregory, Untitled, 1954 P.S. 34, Manhattan Mary Callery Fables of La Fontaine, 1954 P.S. 34, Manhattan Ernest Crichlow Untitled, 1976 Boys’ and Girls’ High School, Brooklyn Edward Wilson Middle Passage, 1978 Boys’ and Girls’ High School, Brooklyn Romare Bearden Daily Activities in the Neighborhood, 1977 P.S. 346, Brooklyn Donna Dennis, Dreaming of Far Away Places: The Ships Come to Washington Market, 1988 Richard Dattner Architects, P.S. 234 Manhattan Ned Smyth Destinations, 2002

P.S. 156/I.S. 293, Brooklyn Mitchell/Giurgola Architects