Buckley School, Hubball Building

210 East 74th Street | also 207 East 73rd Street | Lenox Hill | built 1973

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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

1947
James Hubball becomes head of Buckley and leads the school for 25 years
James Hubball took over as Buckley's head of school in 1947 and served until 1972, a quarter century. He followed Evelyn Adams, who had led the school since 1932, and B. Lord Buckley, who founded it in 1913, and was succeeded by C. Brett Boocock. The school's Hubball Building holds gymnasiums, the Beginners classrooms and administrative offices.
Source: buckleyschool.org
1967
Buckley School buys the building at 207-09 East 73rd and 210 East 74th Streets
In 1967 the Buckley School bought the building at 207-09 East 73rd Street and 210 East 74th Street, now known as the Hubball Building. The school's own timeline, presented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January 2026, places it between the 1960 purchase of 113 East 73rd Street, now the Walsh Building, and the 1996 purchase of 111 East 73rd Street. The same timeline says Buckley was founded in 1913 at 696 Madison Avenue and moved in 1917 to 120-122 East 74th Street.
Source: nyc.gov

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