Brooklyn Friends School
112 Schermerhorn Street | also 110 Schermerhorn Street | Downtown Brooklyn | built 1857
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1902
The Quakers build a Romanesque Revival school beside their meeting house for the Brooklyn Friends School
The Brooklyn Friends School had begun in 1867 inside the Quaker meeting hall next door, with 17 boys and girls in its first class. As enrollment grew, the Friends built a separate school on adjacent land they had bought years earlier. William B. Tubby designed it in the Romanesque Revival style, in brick, and it originally had only two floors and a basement.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1902
William Tubby, architect of the 1902 Friends school, is a Quaker and an early graduate of it
The architect of the 1902 school building, William Tubby, was a prominent Brooklyn architect and a Quaker himself. He was also one of the Brooklyn Friends School's early graduates. The three-story red brick building stands next to the 1857 meeting house.
“It was designed by William Tubby, a prominent Brooklyn architect, to house the Brooklyn Friends School. Tubby was himself a Quaker and an early graduate of the school.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1926
A third floor is added to the Friends school building
By 1926 the school's growth called for more room, and a third floor was added to the main building at 112 Schermerhorn Street. According to Brownstoner, the work was so well done that the building does not look as if it was ever enlarged. Before that, the school had added a kindergarten and a high school and had needed a gym.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1973
Brooklyn Friends School moves to Pearl Street and the Board of Education takes over the building
By 1970 the school buildings were overcrowded and in need of work, so the Friends bought the former Brooklyn Law School building on nearby Pearl Street. By 1973 the whole school had moved there. The Quakers kept the meeting house for worship and leased the school building to the city's Board of Education, whose rent gave the Friends income for their charitable work.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 2011
The old Friends school houses Pacific High School and Brooklyn Frontiers High School
As of an August 2011 Brownstoner profile, the former school building was home to Pacific High School, a transfer school for older students, with plans to phase it out the following year. Brooklyn Frontiers High School, geared to students who had been held back for two or more years in their elementary and middle school grades, was also based there.
Source: brownstoner.com
Further reading
- Friends Meetinghouse and SchoolWikipedia
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