6 Tales of Brooklyn Educational Institutions

Summer holidays end with the last hurray of the Labor Day weekend and students go to another school year. Brooklyn has a rich history of educational institutions and we have completed a few stories about schools, buildings and students below to start the school year.

A masterpiece of education: the Erasmus Hall Academy and high school of Flatbush

Erasmus Hall Academy, one of the most important buildings from the 18th century in the city, is now in the center of a large high school in the early 20th century.

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A Romanesque Revival Landmark by Brooklyn’s School Architect in Cypress Hills

It is not so often that an architect can form a whole portion of a city, but that is what James W. Naughton did with the Brooklyn Public School System between the years 1879 and 1898. In those 19 years he was the only architect of hundreds of school buildings in the city of Brooklyn, the whole results of the town of the City of the Breedendent.

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Borough Park -Students make connections with the history of Brooklyn and discover the story of PS 131

It started with the discovery of a series of historical documents that have long since been forgotten in the rear recesses of an artificial cabinet.

A package was evolved to unveil carefully handwritten attendance records and comments about students’ progress from 1910 to the 1940s. More digs in the building delivered albums filled with the solemn faces of children who were taken from dozens of photos taken in 1909 in known -looking classrooms.

A modest monument for education: PS 111 in Prospect Heights

Only a block of Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park is an early example of one of Brooklyn’s great Red Brick Victorian school buildings. Public School 111 out of 249 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights, originally built as a public school 9 in 1868, received a leap on Romanesque revival with its curved windows and also has some Italian elements more typical of its period.

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‘Farewell but immediately’ in 1870s Williamsburg: colored school no. 3

This is the last of Brooklyn’s Coloured School buildings, a brick and mortar memory of separate public education in the city. Brooklyn and later, Greater New York City, has a very interesting history in this respect, and this small but elegant small building played a role in that story.

The free black communities of Brooklyn tried in 1815 to set up schools for both former slaves and freemen. In 1816 the city of Brooklyn founded its common school system, and black students were given in the same buildings as white students, but in separate rooms. By 1827 these spaces were removed from them, which Henry P. Thompson, the first black businessman of Brooklyn, and Abraham Brown signed up who opened the first African free school. Ten years later, another free school was opened in CARRSVILLE, next to Weekville, and that school was included in the Brooklyn Public School system in 1841.

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This Mansard Romanesque Revival -Stack was a Bastion of Higher Education in Bed Stuy

By the 1870s, the Catholic Church came into its own as the fastest growing denomination of Brooklyn. The middle part of the 19th century saw a huge influx of Catholic Irish and German immigrants, who made the building of churches and schools in record numbers necessary.

Although the spiritual needs of their budding congregations were of the utmost importance, the church was also very interested in all levels of education. Most of Brooklyn Catholic Churches had elementary and often secondary schools that are attached to them. For higher education, many Catholic young men went to Fordham University in the Bronx. But that school was quite a commuter traffic for a young man in Brooklyn, so in the 1870s the diocese of Brooklyn founded its own lecture, called St. John’s College.

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