Old Jamaica High School (Jamaica Learning Center)
162-02 Hillside Avenue | Jamaica | built 1931
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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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- 1896
Jamaica dedicates its new school building on Hillside Avenue after contractor troubles
Excavation began in May 1895, and the work was slowed when the contractor, Frank Mapes & Son, ran into financial problems, and the final cost ran over budget. Elaborate dedication ceremonies were held in November 1896, and the Long Island Farmer declared that the town's new high school could stand beside any in the country. For its first years the building held grammar school classes along with 80 high school students.
“During the dedication ceremony in November 1896, the future of the school as a dedicated high school was already being discussed.”
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