Manhattan · NYC landmark
Former Grammar School 47 / Police Athletic League Building
34 1/2 East 12th Street · Manhattan, New York City
A former girls’ school preserves a site in the history of public secondary education for women.
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NYFE Summary
Educator Lydia Wadleigh developed an advanced course for girls here when their public schooling was limited. That program helped lead toward the city’s first official public high school for girls in 1897. School use ended in 1914, and the Police Athletic League later occupied the building.
Brownstone walls and rusticated lower courses give the small school a substantial street front. Projecting end sections rise to triangular pediments, with rows of regularly spaced windows between them.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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