Grace Church High School

46 Cooper Square | also 50 Cooper Square | NoHo | built 1960

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  1. 1894

    Grace Church opens New York City's first choir boarding school with 16 boys

    Grace Church School began in 1894 as a choir boarding school run by Grace Church, with sixteen boys enrolled. It added buildings along Fourth Avenue over the next decades, became coeducational by 1947, and separated legally from the church in 2006, taking ownership of its own buildings.

    Source: Village Preservation

  2. 1960

    Fritz Nathan gives Hartz Mountain's row of old houses on Cooper Square one brick front

    The building began as a row of mid-nineteenth-century Italianate houses facing Cooper Square. Hartz Mountain Products, a pet-supply company that started in 1926 as a canary dealer, moved to Cooper Square in the early 1930s, gradually took over neighboring buildings, and hired architect Fritz Nathan to join them behind a single brick facade. Plans were filed in 1955 and the work finished in 1960, creating the 21-bay, four-story front on the block between East 4th Street and Astor Place.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2010

    February

    Community Board 2 backs Grace Church School's plan for a high school at Cooper Square

    In February 2010 Community Board 2 voted unanimously for the use-change application of the building's owner and Grace Church School, the lessee. The school, then serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade with 413 students, planned to open one high school grade a year starting in 2012, with about 80 students per grade. The four-story building was then used for New York University classrooms, and a full-size gym that required raising the roof would need approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

    Source: amny.com

  4. 2012

    September 4

    Grace Church High School opens at 46 Cooper Square with its first ninth-graders

    Grace Church School was set to open its high school here on September 4, 2012, with its first class of ninth-graders, on a 95-year lease signed with the owner, Leonard Stern. Architect Jacob Alspector designed the renovation with large skylights and glass panels so students could see the activity around them. The first phase cost $12 million, and students were to place objects in a time capsule in the walls during the first week, to stay closed until the first class's 50-year reunion in 2062.

    Source: dnainfo.com

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