Designates June 25, 2002
Public School 116, a four-story brick and terracotta building erected between 1897 and 1899, was designed in the late Romanesque Revival style with some Classical detailing by James W. Naughton, the Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. Built to address the educational needs of children in the surrounding neighborhood of southern Bushwick, it is a handsome example of the urban school house that was a significant element in the nineteenth-century streetscape.