Designated: June 27, 2000 The 120th Police Precinct Station House (former 66th Police Precinct Station House and Headquarters) is an impressive neo-Renaissance style building set on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island’s civic center. Designed by James Whitford, Sr., it was built in 1920-23 as the headquarters for the Police Department in Richmond County and as […]
The Staten Island Family Courthouse, an integral part of Staten Island’s civic center in St. George, is an impressive neo-Classical building set on Richmond Terrace. In 1898, Richmond County was consolidated into the City of New York, and the old county center was moved to St. George. Between 1898 and 1919, the firm of Carrere […]
This two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, clapboard-covered house is the most impressive mid-nineteenth century residence surviving in Richmondtown, the historic governmental center of Staten Island. Built around 1857 for Daniel Lake Stephens, its transitional design incorporates Greek Revival and Italianate elements and features projecting columned porches and molded entrance surrounds with narrow sidelights and transoms.
Opened in September 1908, Public School 28 was one of many new schools that were built on Staten Island by the New York City Board of Education in the decade following the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898. The new school was designed by C.B.J. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings, who was responsible for […]
Opened on March 18, 1905, the Port Richmond Branch of the New York Public Library is one of four Carnegie branch libraries on Staten Island and one of sixty-seven in New York City, built with Andrew Carnegie’s 1901 donation of $5.2 million which established a city-wide branch library system. The distinguished and prolific architectural firm […]
Serving the historic community of Tompkinsville in Staten Island, Public School 15 was built in 1897-98 as the Middletown Township District School No. 1, on the same site at the corner of Grant Street and St. Paul’s Avenue on which a public school has stood since 1855. The school was designed by Edward A. Sargent, […]
The Westfield Township District School No. 7, one of the oldest surviving school structures on Staten Island, was erected in 1896 during a school construction boom related to the population growth on the island. The building project, undertaken by the school district Board of Trustees at the time when the village of Kreischerville approached a […]
The St. Peter’s German Evangelical Church at Kreischerville (now Free Magyar Reformed Church) church complex–church, parish house, and rectory–recalls the era when Charleston was known as Kreischerville, as well as the early twentieth-century period when Hungarian immigrants maintained the separate identity of the small village. Erected in 1883 as the gift of local industrialist Balthasar […]
The Kreischerville Workers’ Houses at 71-73 Kreischer Street, part of a group of four identical double houses, were built around 1890 on a site that was quite near to the Kreischer brick manufacturing works (no longer standing) where the first occupants worked. The structure survives as an element of the company town character that prevailed […]
The Kreischerville Workers’ Houses at 75-77 Kreischer Street, part of a group of four identical double houses, were built around 1890 on a site that was quite near to the Kreischer brick manufacturing works (no longer standing) where the first occupants worked. The structure survives as an element of the company town character that prevailed […]
