Erasmus Hall High School

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Erasmus Hall High School is a high school in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn) in the New York City school system. It primarily serves the 10th to 12th grades. It is located on the east side of Flatbush Avenue slightly south of Church Avenue in the community of Flatbush. It was named for Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus.

[edit] Description and history

The current school consists of four buildings built between 1903 and 1940 in the Collegiate Gothic style, and designed by C.B.J. Snyder, New York City's school architect. The four buildings form a quadrangle around a campus green. In the center of that green is the original building of the Erasmus Hall Academy, the original school building, erected in 1786 as a wood structure in the Georgian/Federal style.

Original blueprint of Erasmus Hall at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
Original blueprint of Erasmus Hall at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center


The academy's founders included Alexander Hamilton and former United States vice-president Aaron Burr, who later killed Hamilton in a famous duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Other founders included John Jay and Governor George Clinton. The two primary donors that were most instrumental in founding the school were Senator John Vanderbilt and Peter Lefferts. Thanks to these men's efforts the academy stands the third oldest in the state.

[edit] Famous alumni

Erasmus has had a number of famous and accomplished alumni, some of the better known including (class year):

[edit] External links

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