"We have rounded up a few Brooklyn tales of schools, buildings, and students to mark the start of the school year. Summer vacations are winding down with the last hurrah of the Labor Day weekend and students are headed into another school year. Brooklyn has a rich history of educational institutions and we have rounded up a few tales of schools, buildings, and students below to start off the school year."
"Borough Park Students Make Connections With Brooklyn History and Uncover the Story of P.S. 131 It began with the discovery of a trove of historic documents long forgotten in the back recesses of an art cupboard. A package was unwrapped to reveal carefully handwritten attendance records and notes on student progress from 1910 to the 1940s. More digging in the building turned up albums filled with the solemn faces of children staring out from dozens of photographs taken in 1909 in familiar looking classrooms."
Brooklyn contains multiple historic educational sites that reflect architectural and community history. Erasmus Hall Academy is an 18th-century building incorporated into a grand early 20th-century high school. James W. Naughton served as Superintendent of Buildings and designed hundreds of Romanesque Revival school buildings in Brooklyn between 1879 and 1898. Students at P.S. 131 in Borough Park discovered archival attendance records, progress notes, and class photographs dating from 1909 to the 1940s. P.S. 111 in Prospect Heights is a red brick Victorian school originally built in 1868 with early Romanesque Revival features located near Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park.
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