Bank Street School

59 Bank Street | also 69 Bank Street | West Village | built 1905

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1905
Schirmer sons commission a four-story building at 69 Bank Street
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Rudolph E. and Gustave Schirmer, sons of the founder of the music publishing house G. Schirmer, had architect Howard Chapman design this four-story building in 1905. It was later smooth-stuccoed and stripped of ornament, leaving three bays of triple windows between masonry pilasters. By 1969 it housed the Bank Street School.
“…originally erected in 1905 for Rudolph E. and Gustave Schirmer, sons of G. Schirmer, the founder of the music publishing house, G. Schirmer, Inc.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Bank Street's teacher-training school moves to 69 Bank Street and takes its name from it
In 1930 the Bureau of Educational Experiments, founded in 1916 by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Harriet Merrill Johnson, moved to 69 Bank Street. It ran there as the Cooperative School for Teachers, and the address gave the institution its name. In the 1950s it became Bank Street College of Education, and it left the building in 1971.
“The name of the institution derives from its 1930–1971 location at 69 Bank Street in Greenwich Village.”
Source: Wikipedia

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