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PS 83 in the Bronx
Public School 83, located at 950 Rhinelander Avenue in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, New York City, was built in 1924-1925. It was designed by William H. Gompert, the Superintendent of School Buildings. It is a Colonial Revival style building, featuring a red brick facade and a 2-story high stone portico with classical columns. Colonial Revival was a popular style of that era and was often seen as distinctively American and appropriate for civic buildings. On a subtle level, it was meant to encourage "Americanism" among immigrants in contrast to other architectural styles then popular such as Renaissance Revival that had a strongly European identity. Although Colonial Revival draws heavily from Georgian architecture, a quintessentially English style and also borrows from classical Greek and Roman forms, it is seen as American for its association with such buildings as Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, and other iconic buildings of the American Revolutionary period.
According to a New York Times article dated 14 September 1925, PS 83 was one of 38 new school buildings opened that day to provide increased capacity for New York's growing school population. While PS 83 added seats for 1,724 students, all the new buildings that day added 62,171 to a system anticipated to reach an enrollment of 1 million students that year. (Recent school records indicate an enrollment of approximately 1,700 students in grades K to 8.)
PS 83 is also known as the Donald Hertz School. The L-shaped building is located at the corner of Rhinelander Avenue and Bogart Avenue. The inner portion of the L is occupied by the playground.
PS 83 in the Bronx
Public School 83, located at 950 Rhinelander Avenue in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, New York City, was built in 1924-1925. It was designed by William H. Gompert, the Superintendent of School Buildings. It is a Colonial Revival style building, featuring a red brick facade and a 2-story high stone portico with classical columns. Colonial Revival was a popular style of that era and was often seen as distinctively American and appropriate for civic buildings. On a subtle level, it was meant to encourage "Americanism" among immigrants in contrast to other architectural styles then popular such as Renaissance Revival that had a strongly European identity. Although Colonial Revival draws heavily from Georgian architecture, a quintessentially English style and also borrows from classical Greek and Roman forms, it is seen as American for its association with such buildings as Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, and other iconic buildings of the American Revolutionary period.
According to a New York Times article dated 14 September 1925, PS 83 was one of 38 new school buildings opened that day to provide increased capacity for New York's growing school population. While PS 83 added seats for 1,724 students, all the new buildings that day added 62,171 to a system anticipated to reach an enrollment of 1 million students that year. (Recent school records indicate an enrollment of approximately 1,700 students in grades K to 8.)
PS 83 is also known as the Donald Hertz School. The L-shaped building is located at the corner of Rhinelander Avenue and Bogart Avenue. The inner portion of the L is occupied by the playground.