Wednesday, November 9, 2011

☞ REMEMBER: Barnard School for Boys c. 1910


A postcard from 1910 show the building at the corner of 146th and St. Nicholas Avenue in a more pristine state over a century ago. The sign on the second level indicates the building was originally the Barnard School for Boys in better days but the lower photo shows the structure's state today.   One interesting architectural detail to note is that photos of this building with a cornice have never been found and thus the building might have been designed without one in mind. This Sugar Hill landmark has been off and on the market at times but a buyer with the funds to restore it has yet to found.

Thaddeus Wilkerson, Barnard School for Boys, New York, ca. 1910 via the digital collection at the Museum of the City of New York.
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3 comments:

  1. GregNovember 9, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    Very interesting. I heard that there was a Barnard School for Girls somewhere in Sugar Hill. Does anyone know if this was a day school or a boarding school?

    Ulysses have you found any photos of The Modern School? It was located on West 152nd St. and now is a hoemless shelter. It was Harlem's first private school for Blacks founded in 1934.

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  2. msciaraNovember 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    This is one my favorites on the hill...one day we will see all of these masterpieces remastered !!

    J'espère !!!!

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  3. Jonathan GillNovember 13, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    Re: The first private school for Blacks in Harlem. Surely there were church schools before 1934, though they would have been "for Blacks" only in a de facto sense, i.e. not founded with Blacks in mind, but merely for church members who happened to be Black. And what about UNIA schools? And even schools affiliated with Black Jews? And I seem to recall a school for Blacks in Manhattanville in the nineteenth century run by abolitionists or Quakers (or both).

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