St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School
619 West 114th Street | also 611 West 114th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1965
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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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- 1967
Bishop Donegan dedicates the school's new $4.6 million building in Morningside Heights
On January 12, 1967, Bishop Donegan, chairman of the school's board of trustees, dedicated the new building in Morningside Heights. It gathered facilities that had been spread across three separate buildings and gave the school an enrollment potential of 725. The school had begun with eight children and two staff in a town house a block away.
Source: episcopalarchives.org
- 1967
Moore & Hutchins design a seven-story school of beige brick with rooftop play decks
The firm Moore & Hutchins, which specialized in school buildings, designed the contemporary structure. Its beige brick facade has precast concrete trim and aluminum window frames. It holds thirty classrooms, four kindergarten rooms and a nursery arranged to face the streets, with a chapel, cafeteria and offices on the first floor and screened play decks, one on a gymnasium roof and one around the set-back seventh story.
Source: episcopalarchives.org
- 1967
Columbia, neighboring institutions and Chase Manhattan finance the new school building
Most of the money for the new building came from Morningside Heights institutions. Columbia University advanced $2,075,000 in loans and mortgages, and Remedco, an improvement agency of neighboring institutions, lent another $433,000. Chase Manhattan Bank made an unsecured loan of $1 million, and smaller sums and foundation grants were added for the project.
Source: episcopalarchives.org
- 1967
Nearly 700 pupils attend, many of them children of Columbia faculty and graduate students
By early 1967 the school had close to 700 students. A large share were children of Columbia University faculty and graduate students, or of people at nearby Union Theological Seminary and St. Luke's School of Nursing, though enrollment was spreading to other parts of the city and suburbs. The faculty had 32 full-time and 14 part-time teachers, and a large number of the women were sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit.
Source: episcopalarchives.org
- 1992
The school's board decides to close the upper school, grades 9 through 12
In 1992 the board of trustees voted to end the high school grades at the close of the 1992-93 school year. St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's then continued as a school through eighth grade, which is the arrangement today.
“In 1992, SHSH's board of trustees made the decision to close SHSH's upper school (grades 9 through 12) at the end of the 1992–93 school year.”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
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