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This school was constructed in 1906 at 90 Huntington Avenue. It later became an annex to School 54, and closed in 1980 during desegregation. The building has since been converted to private apartments.

The first building pictured was the 1888 "Old Buildilng" designed by the architectural firm of Cyrus K. Porter & Son. It was located at 1082 Fillmore Avenue near Genesee. The school closed in 1955, and was replaced by senior housing.The "New…

This school was constructed in 1873 at 256 Lewis Street, replacing the previous wood schoolhouse 25 on Batavia Street. This building closed in 1949, and no longer exists.

Built in 1888 at 101 Milton Street, this school was designed by Louise Bethune's architectural firm, Bethune & Bethune. It was described by Buffalo Express newspaper in 1889 as having 121 rooms, Queenstown-stone trimmings, and “finished in…

The first photograph is of the small schoolhouse 27 built in 1864 on Cazenovia Street. The next two images show the replacement building built at 41 Mineral Springs Road near Seneca in 1896. This structure housed School 27 until 1963.Neither early…

This school was built in 1888 and designed by architect Charles Swan.  Located at 1515 South Park (formerly Abbott Road and Triangle), this school was also known as Triangle Academy. This building was demolished in 1963 to make way for a new School…

Built in 1906, this building replaced the original school at 2219 South Park Avenue. It closed in 1980 during desegregation and later became a Buffalo Police Station.The building has recently housed charter schools, and still exists (as of 2018).

This two-story brick building was built in 1890 as a replacement for the previous three room wood schoolhouse in this district. Located at at South and Louisiana Streets, this building housed School 30 until 1911.  It was used by the school system as…

School 31 opened in 1857 at 365 Emslie Street. With population growth, annexes were built in 1872 and 1884, creating the largest school in the city at the time. A new School 31 was built in 1925 on Stanton Street.  The old building pictured here was…

The original School 32 was built in 1857 at 750 Cedar Street. This is the three-story structure in the first two photographs, noted as "Old Part."The last picture is the two story replacement building constructed in 1872 next to the old one.In 1913,…