St. Anthony's School
60 MacDougal Street | SoHo | built 1909
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- 1903
Architect Nicholas Serracino arrives from Italy and builds a practice around churches
Nicholas Serracino was born in Italy and came to the United States in 1903. By 1906 he had set up a general practice in the city that focused on churches and their auxiliary buildings, among them the 1911 St. John Baptiste Church on Lexington Avenue, now a city landmark. He also designed garages and tenements, and he remained in practice through 1930. St. Anthony's School is his work in the Sullivan-Thompson district.
- 1909
The new parish school has separate boys' and girls' entrances behind buff brick and terra cotta
Nicholas Serracino's 1909 school for St. Anthony of Padua parish is built of buff brick with white terra-cotta trim. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the ground floor has separate entrances for boys and girls, each framed by scrolled brackets that support a pediment bearing a cross. Apart from its lost cornice, the building remains largely intact.
“The first story features separate boys’ and girls’ entrances.”
- 1909
St. Anthony of Padua parish moves its school out of a converted factory into a new MacDougal Street building
In 1909 Nicholas Serracino, an Italian immigrant who had set up a general architecture practice in New York some five years before, designed a new school for St. Anthony of Padua parish. It replaced a school that had been housed in a converted factory building nearby. The five-story building is a modest Renaissance Revival design faced in light-colored brick with terra-cotta trim. The parish's church and friary stand nearby on Sullivan and Thompson Streets.
- 2005
The parish school on MacDougal Street ends a run that began in 1902
The Church of St. Anthony of Padua on Sullivan Street dates to 1859, when it became the country's first parish created specifically for Italian immigrants. It operated a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school on MacDougal Street from 1902 until 2005, and its 1909 building at no. 60 still stands.
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