Children's Aid Society Italian School
57 Elizabeth Street | also 154 Hester Street, 59 Elizabeth Street | Little Italy | built 1920
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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.
- 1855
The Italian School opens at Five Points, decades before it moves to Hester Street
The school that later occupied this corner began in 1855 inside the Five Points House of Industry, first as a primary school for newly arrived immigrant children. Charles Loring Brace's Children's Aid Society ran it, with money from the Italian government and from Egisto Fabbri, one of the city's wealthiest men. Children and adults there were taught English and trade skills.
Source: National Register nomination
- 1912
The Italian School moves into a new nine-story building at Hester and Elizabeth Streets
In 1912 the Children's Aid Society's Italian School moved into a nine-story building at the corner of Hester and Elizabeth Streets. The Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District nomination says it was the last of at least five locations the school used in and around the neighborhood.
Source: National Register nomination
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