St. Luke's School

657 Greenwich Street | also 493 Hudson Street, 132 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1955

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  1. 1945

    September 24

    St. Luke's School opens with 19 children and two teachers

    St. Luke's School opened on September 24, 1945, with 19 children and two teachers, holding classes in the parish house of St. Luke in the Fields. It started with four grades under Rev. Leicester C. Lewis and Principal Margurite S. Gates, then added a grade each year. A new building, playground and garden on Greenwich Street followed in 1955, and the school remained part of the church until it became independent in 2012.

    Source: stlukeschool.org

  2. 1955

    Early nineteenth-century townhouses on Greenwich Street are cleared for the school

    A row of townhouses from the 1820s stood along this stretch of Greenwich Street until a 1955 renovation of the St. Luke's block razed many of them. In their place went a new school building, a playground and a garden. The 1969 district report counts thirteen town houses on Greenwich Street that the school now replaces.

    Source: stlukeschool.org

  3. 1955

    Thomas M. Bell designs a low brick school for Trinity Church

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    Thomas M. Bell designed the school for the Corporation of Trinity Church, and the 1969 landmarks report dates the building to the early 1950s. It is two stories of brick with classrooms and a gymnasium, and its most visible feature is a low tower with brick quoins at the southeast corner of Christopher and Greenwich Streets. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 report notes that metal windows are widely spaced and that the austere Greenwich Street facade effectively turns its back to the street.

    “It is a long, low brick building, two stories high, which contains the classrooms and a gymnasium. The school was designed by Thomas M. Bell for the Corporation of Trinity Church…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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