Boys High School (NY)
- Henry W. Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia was known as Boys High School from 1924 to 1947
Boys' High School
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South face
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Location: |
832 Marcy Ave, New York, New York |
Area: |
1.9 acres (7,700 m2) |
Built: |
1891 |
Architect: |
James W. Naughton, C.B.J Snyder |
Architectural style: |
Romanesque, Rundbogenstil |
Governing body: |
Local |
NRHP Reference#: |
82003361[1] |
Added to NRHP: |
February 25, 1982 |
Boys High School is an historic and architecturally notable public school building in the Bedford–Stuyvesant, neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It is regarded as "one of Brooklyn's finest buildings.[2]
Architecture
The "splendid" Romanesque Revival building is richly decorated in terracotta somewhat in the style of Louis Sullivan.[3] The building is admired for round corner tower, dormers, dormers, soaring campanile. [4]
The building was erected in 1891 on the west side of Marcy Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Madison Street. It was designed by James W. Naughton, Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn.[5] The building is regarded as Naughton's "finest work."[6]
When Boys High was landmarked by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1975, the commission called it "one of the finest Romanesque Revival style buildings in the city."[7]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1982.
School
In 1975, the same year the building was landmarked, Boys High merged with Girls High School to become Boys and Girls High School.[7] Boys and Girls High School immediately moved to a new building at Fulton Street and Utica Avenue.[7] Notable Boys High alumni include Norman Mailer, Isaac Asimov, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Aaron Copland, basketball star Connie Hawkins, and William Levitt, developer of Levittown.[8]
The school was a college preparatory program with high academic standards. Congressman Emanuel Celler described Boys High in his autobiography, "I went to Boys' High School — naturally. I say "naturally" because Boys' High School then, as now, was the high school of scholarships. Boys of Brooklyn today will tell you, "It's a hard school." It was highly competitive..."[9]
Another Boys High graduated remembered that "I went to Boys High School in Brooklyn, a great school. It was out of the classic tradition. I guess eighty percent of the student body had to take Latin — we didn't have to; we elected Latin, because we felt it was expected of us.."[10]
Notable alumni
- Isaac Asimov (1920–92), author
- Jules Bender (1914–82), collegiate and professional basketball player
- Emanuel Celler (1888–1981), served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years
- Aaron Copland (1900–90), classical composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
- Mel Davis (born 1950), professional basketball player
- Tommy Davis (born 1939), Major League Baseball player
- I.A.L. Diamond (1920– 88), comedy writer
- Martin Dobelle (1906–86), orthopedic surgeon
- Hal Draper (born Harold Dubinsky, 1914–90), socialist activist and author
- Ted Draper (1912–2006), historian and political writer
- Leon Festinger (1919–89), social psychologist
- Alfred Gottschalk (1930–2009), Rabbi who was a leader in the Reform Judaism movement
- Si Green (1933–80), professional basketball player
- Connie Hawkins, Basketball Hall of Famer
- W. Langdon Kihn (1898–1957), portrait painter and illustrator
- Man Ray (1890–1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, artist
- Morris Kline (1908–92), Professor of Mathematics
- Norman Mailer (1923 –2007), novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director
- Mickey Marcus (1901–48), US Army colonel who became Israel's first general
- Abraham Maslow (1908–70), professor of psychology
- Will Maslow (1907–2007), lawyer and civil rights leader
- Irv Mondschein, American track and field champion
- Max Roach (1924–2007), jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
- Allie Sherman, NFL football player and coach
- Alexander S. Wiener (1907–76), leader in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics
External links
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "Brooklyn: a state of mind," Michael W. Robbins, Wendy Palitz, Workman Publishing, 2001, p. 228.
- ^ http://www.nyc-architecture.com/BES/BED001-BoysHigh%20School.htm "New York Architecture Images, Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant, Boys’ High School"].
- ^ "Boys' High School," NYC-AGO website.
- ^ An architectural guidebook to Brooklyn, Francis Morrone,Photographs by James Iska, Gibbs Smith, 2001, p. 37.
- ^ "Walkabout with Montrose: Master of Schools, JW Naughton," September 8, 2009, Brownstoner.
- ^ a b c "Boys High School And Historic Dock Made Landmarks; Boys High And a Dock Are Cited, Joseph P. Fried,October 5, 1975, New York Times.
- ^ The big Onion Guide to Brooklyn, Seth kamil and Eric Walker, New York University Press, 2005, p. 64.
- ^ You never leave Brooklyn: the autobiography of Emanuel Celler, Emanuel Celler, J. Day Co., 1953, p. 31.
- ^ Jewish times: voices of the American Jewish experience, Howard Simons, Anchor Books, 1990, p. 262.
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