Erasmus Hall High School

Erasmus Hall High School is a high school in the New York City school system. It primarily serves the 10th to 12th grades. It is located on the east side of Flatbush Avenue slightly south of Church Avenue in the community of Flatbush. It was named for Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus.

Description and history

The current school consists of four buildings built between 1903 and 1940 in the Collegiate Gothic style, and designed by C.B.J. Snyder, New York City's school architect. The four buildings from a quadrangle around a campus green. In the center of that green is the original building of the Erasmus Hall Academy, the original school building, erected in 1786 as a wood structure in the Georgian/Federal style.

Related Topics:
Collegiate Gothic - Quadrangle - Campus - 1786

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The academy's founders included Alexander Hamilton and former United States vice-president Aaron Burr, who later killed Hamilton in a famous duel in Jersey City, New Jersey. Other founders included John Jay and Governor George Clinton.

Related Topics:
Alexander Hamilton - United States - Aaron Burr - Jersey City - New Jersey - John Jay - George Clinton

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