St. Ann's School

117 East 11th Street | also 113 East 11th Street | East Village | built 1900

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1870

   Napoleon LeBrun designs a schoolhouse for St. Ann's Church

   In 1870, the Church of St. Ann for the Rev. Thomas Preston hires architect Napoleon LeBrun, who later designs the Metropolitan Life Tower and dozens of FDNY firehouses, to build a four-story school at 113-117 East 11th Street. The building survives even after LeBrun's section of the adjoining church on East 12th Street is later demolished.

   Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

2. 1870

   St. Ann's School opens with separate boys' and girls' entrances

   St. Ann's parochial school opens in 1870 with 560 pupils, admitted through separate doors for boys and girls beneath a facade of patterned brick, limestone-trimmed arches, and a carved stone disc naming the school. Enrollment falls to 304 students by 1914, and in 1978 the building is converted into apartments, four to a floor.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1883

   March

   Fire inspectors find the school's doors locked with no escapes

   A March 1883 inspection of St. Ann's School finds every outer door locked, no fire escapes installed, and no fire drills ever held for the hundreds of children inside. Three years later, in 1886, the Rev. Thomas Preston separately protests when the neighboring Webster Hall applies for a liquor license.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1950

   The Delehanty Institute moves into the former schoolhouse

   The Delehanty Institute, New York's leading civil service preparation school founded by Michael J. Delehanty, occupies the building from the 1950s through the 1970s. A 1941 profile in The New Yorker had already credited the school with 350,000 graduates and estimated that roughly 90 percent of the city's police officers and 80 percent of its firefighters had trained there.

   Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

Further reading

• The 1870 St. Ann's School -- No. 113 East 11th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• 117 East 11th Street; 113-117 East 11th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks

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