Our Lady of Sorrows School
217 Stanton Street | also 219 Stanton Street, 99 Pitt Street | Lower East Side | built 1900
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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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- 1874
William Schickel files plans for the Our Lady of Sorrows parish school
Our Lady of Sorrows parish was founded in 1857 for the Lower East Side's German Catholics, and in 1873 its trustees obtained lots beside the church for a school. German-born architect William Schickel filed plans on February 13, 1874, for a four-story brick schoolhouse in the Victorian Gothic style. It was finished that year as a five-story red brick building with a slate mansard roof and a Virgin and Child sculpture, with a girls' entrance on Pitt Street and a boys' entrance on Stanton Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1888
The Capuchin-run school reports 352 boys and 450 girls enrolled
On February 14, 1888, The Evening World described Our Lady of Sorrows School, run by the Capuchin Fathers like the church, as in a most prosperous condition. The boys' school had 352 pupils enrolled and the girls' school 450. The article also gave average daily attendance, and Daytonian in Manhattan suggests that the gap reflects boys who needed to work to help their families rather than go to school.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2011
The Archdiocese closes the school, and the building is converted for the Cooke Center
Our Lady of Sorrows School served the Pitt Street neighborhood into the 21st century. Cardinal Timothy Dolan closed it in January 2011. The Cooke Center for Learning and Development, a nonprofit that offers special education for students aged 5 through 21, along with consulting and training, then took over the converted building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Our Lady of Sorrows School -- No. 219 Stanton StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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