CONTEMPORARY NY
PS047-02.jpg (79781 bytes) New York Architecture Images-  Park Slope, Brooklyn

Public School 39 , Brooklyn, The Henry Bristow School  Landmark

architect

Samuel B. Leonard, Superintendent of Buildings for the City of Brooklyn Board of Education. 

location

417 Sixth Ave., NE cor. 8th St. 

date

1876-1877.

style

Second Empire Baroque  

type

Education

construction

Brownstone and brick

A mansarded Victorian school house in painted brick and rusticated brownstone. The Second Empire (of Napoleon III) influenced the far reaches of Brooklyn only 5 years after his downfall.

 

 

 

 

 

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  with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",