Fourteenth Ward Industrial School

Significant dates

Fourteenth Ward Industrial School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark No. 0960



Location	256-258 Mott Street, Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°43′24.5″N 73°59′40″W / 40.723472°N 73.99444°W / 40.723472; -73.99444
Built	1888-89^[2]
Architect	Vaux & Radford^[2]
Architectural style	Victorian Gothic^[2]
NRHP reference No.	83001724^[1]
NYCL No.	0960
Added to NRHP	January 27, 1983
Designated NYCL	July 12, 1977

The Fourteenth Ward Industrial School is located at 256-258 Mott Street between Prince and Houston Streets in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built for the Children's Aid Society in 1888–89, with funds provided by John Jacob Astor III, and was designed by the firm of Vaux & Radford in the Victorian Gothic style.^[2] The Society built a number of schools for indigent children at the time.^[2] It was later known as the Astor Memorial School.^[3]

The building, which is now in residential use, was designated a New York City landmark in 1977, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

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Notes

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.87

Green spaces

Religion

Former	Church of the Divine Unity St. Alphonsus Ligouri Church

Culture/community

Restaurants	Balthazar Le Coucou Estela Fanelli Cafe Lombardi's Pizza SOB's Taïm The Musket Room Torrisi
Theaters and art	Drawing Center HERE Arts Center Holly Solomon Gallery New York Earth Room Performing Garage Recess Activities Sean Kelly Gallery Staley-Wise Gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture Team Gallery Terrain Gallery The Broken Kilometer The Wall
Hotels	The Bowery House The Dominick The Mercer Hotel Soho Grand Hotel Westchester House
Museums	Children's Museum of the Arts Dahesh Museum of Art Filipino American Museum Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art New York City Fire Museum World of McIntosh Experience Center
Other	Judson Health Center
Former	Aquagrill Artists' Choice Museum Fiamma Osteria FOOD Greene St. Recording Guggenheim Museum SoHo Jen Bekman Gallery Mimi Ferzt Gallery Moondance Diner Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Niblo's Garden OK Harris Gallery Rebelle St. Nicholas Hotel Theatre Comique Uncle Boons Veruka

Buildings

Transportation

Subway stations	Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street Canal Street/Broadway/Centre St/Lafayette St Canal Street/Sixth Avenue Canal Street/Varick Street Houston Street Prince Street Spring Street/Lafayette Street Spring Street/Sixth Avenue
Streets	Sixth Avenue Bowery Broome Street Canal Street Grand Street Greenwich Street Houston Street MacDougal Street Mercer Street Spring Street Sullivan Street Thompson Street West Broadway Wooster Street

Education in Manhattan

Public schools

Closed	P.S. 135 Grammar School No. 35 Haaren HS Manhattan Trade School for Girls Manhattan Voc and Tech HS Norman Thomas HS Wadleigh HS for Girls Charter Ross Global Acad

Private schools

Closed	Former archdiocese schools Bishop Dubois HS De La Salle Institute Mother Cabrini HS Power Memorial Acad Rice HS St. Agnes Boys HS St. Ann Academy St. Michael Acad Other Anglo American Baldwin Fourteenth Ward Industrial Franklin McBurney New Lincoln New Walden Lincoln Walden

Tertiary/Other schools

Closed	New York School of Applied Design for Women

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