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Monday, January 9, 2006
The First Prospect Hill School in Pelham Manor
Today's beautiful Prospect Hill Elementary School building located between
Washington and Clay Avenues near Hudson Street was dedicated in October
1930. The building is the third school building to serve children of
Prospect Hill and surrounding neighborhoods. Today's Historic Pelham Blog
Posting will provide a little information about the second such building
-- the immediate predecessor building that today's school building
replaced.
Early Image of the Prospect Hill
School on Jackson Avenue
The image above shows the school building.
At the time, the school was called The Jackson Avenue School. It was a
two story building of stone and red brick that stood near the
intersection of Jackson Avenue and Plymouth Street. The building stood
approximately where the homes at 212-220 Jackson Avenue stand today, not
far from today's Prospect Hill School.
Pelham voters authorized a $4,000 bond issue
to fund construction of the new school building on October 14, 1879. The
building had been erected by the time G. W. Bromley and Co. published a
map of the area in 1881. A detail from that map showing the school
appears immediately below.
Detail from 1881 Map with Arrow
Pointing to Jackson Avenue School.
This school served Pelham schoolchildren for nearly fifty years. By the
1920s, however, the population of the Village of Pelham Manor had grown so
substantially that a larger school building was necessary.
Detail from 1899 Map by John
Fairchild Showing Jackson Avenue School.
This time, however, $4,000 would not do the job.
Pelham voters approved a $398,000 bond issue to fund construction of the
lovely school building known today as Prospect Hill School.
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