Erasmus Hall High School
2212 Bedford Avenue | East Flatbush | built 1904
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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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- 1787
Erasmus Hall Academy opens in a Federal-style wooden schoolhouse with 26 students
The Academy was founded in 1786 by Reverend John H. Livingston and Senator John Vanderbilt and was the first secondary school chartered by the state Regents. The Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church gave the land, and donors included Robert Livingston, Peter Lefferts, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. The two-and-a-half-story clapboard schoolhouse opened in 1787 with 26 students and still stands in the courtyard. This entry describes the original academy building on the lot.
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