School No. 20, Amherst Street School

Title

School No. 20, Amherst Street School

Description

This School 20 replaced previous buildings at East and Amherst Streets in 1877.  A horticulture program began here in 1907, and the school became Black Rock Vocational in 1910. The school later moved to Elmwood Avenue and was renamed McKinley High School.

The building at East and Amherst closed in 1935 and has since been demolished.

Date

1908-03

Source

Buffalo Public School Buildings, 1908

Publisher

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)

Rights

Digital image copyright 2018 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Relation

Digital Collections of the B&ECPL

Type

Still Image

Format

image/tiff

Language

Citation

Buffalo (N.Y.). Department of Public Works, “School No. 20, Amherst Street School,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/1768.