St. Brigid's Academy
313 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1848
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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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- 1873
The Sisters of Charity buy 313 East 10th Street and join it with their academy next door as a girls' dormitory
The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul had bought the house next door at 315 East 10th Street in 1856, and by the 1870s they ran St. Brigid's Academy there. In 1873 they bought 313 as well and filed permits that year to turn both houses into a dormitory for girls. The Landmarks Preservation Commission adds that census records show a number of Sisters living at No. 315 by 1870.
- 1892
Architect Franklin Baylies gives the academy's two houses a Gothic Revival front
In 1892 architect Franklin Baylies filed permits to reset the window lintels, cover them and the sills in galvanized iron, and run a new galvanized-iron cornice across the fronts of 313 and 315. The changes remade two plain Greek Revival row houses into a Gothic Revival pair, with drop-eared lintels and a cornice decorated with quatrefoils. The Landmarks Preservation Commission suggests the style suited a school run by a church order.
“Alterations permits filed by architect Franklin Baylies in 1892 note that the window lintels were to be reset, that the lintels and sills were to be covered with galvanized iron…”
- 1920
The Tribune reports the Sisters' academy property at 313 and 315 resold to the Independent Stryjer Benevolent Society
The New-York Tribune reported on June 29, 1920 that Leopold Horowitz had resold the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul's former academy buildings, Nos. 313 and 315 East Tenth Street, to the Independent Stryjer Benevolent Society. Daytonian in Manhattan notes that the Tompkins Square neighborhood was then the center of the Eastern European community. The same post adds that the former school's interiors were later remade as a clubhouse for the Russian Erudition Society, known as Nauko.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1947
The Slovak Social Welfare Club buys 313 East 10th Street, once the headquarters of a Jerusalem charity
After the academy, the house became the address of a Jerusalem charitable organization called Jolel Shomre Hachomos. When its president, Rev. Dr. Philip Klein, died in 1926, the New York Times obituary gave 313 East 10th Street as the group's headquarters. In 1947 the Slovak Social Welfare Club bought the property, according to Village Preservation's building record.
Further reading
- 313 East 10th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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