From Masten Park High School to City Honors - Table of Contents
From Masten Park to City Honors:
The 1914 Building - Exterior
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Erected: |
1912-1914 |
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Architects: |
Esenwein & Johnson |
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Architectural Style: |
Beaux Arts Italian Renaissance. The school building is a three-story, fifteen bay structure. |
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The school occupies an entire city block: Best Street on the north — North Street on the south — Masten Avenue on the east — Fosdick Street on the west. |
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Brick, terra cotta |
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Steel frame; terra cotta exterior |
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Status: |
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Fosdick-Masten Park High School (1983) |
The new building opened Sept. 8, 1914, and one reason it was completed so fast was that the Buffalo Board of Education simply adapted the plans already drawn up for Lafayette High, which was new at the time. The exterior surfaces and the shape of the central towers are different, but otherwise the two high schools are much the same. The new building cost $500,000.
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1914 Building. Photo taken from Masten and North Sts. |
Postcard showing 1897 and 1914 buildings. |
The Fosdick-Masten neighborhood and the present building before the tower over the front entrance was removed in 1927. |
National register plaque. |
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City seal |
Terra cotta brick from dismantled tower. (Original in school museum) |
Front entrance on Fosdick St. |
Side (North St.) entrance |
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Reproduction lantern on either side of entrance doors |
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White, glazed terra cotta egg-and-dart molding |
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White, glazed terra cotta stylized capital |
White, glazed terra cotta stylized triglyphs |
Copper modillions under cornice
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Copper modillions under cornice |
White, glazed terra cotta stylized triglyphs |
White glazed terra cotta facade |
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Masten St. side |
Inner courtyard - north |
Inner courtyard - south - showing cafeteria skylights |
Pilgrim Village |
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Pilgrim Village |
Ca. 1915 photo that shows the tower that was taken down in 1927. |
Postcard showing 1897 and 1914 buildings |
