Poor New Rochelle High school. As if a devastating fire in 1968 wasn’t bad enough, the old girl suffered another indignity as lightning struck one of its towers about 6pm on Friday. The strike arrupted a blaze that basically destroyed the conical roof, but luckily it was a localized event, and should be fully repairable.
A [...]
New Rochelle High School Can’t Catch a Break
August 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Architecture, Miscellaneous
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The Ghost of New Rochelle High School
July 5th, 2007 · 40 Comments · Architecture, Diary
My first exposure to New Rochelle High School was a series of photographs in a 1932 article on school architecture written by James Betelle. While I had been pretty familiar with the traditional English Gothic and Neo-Classical designs of his schools, this one stood out as unique; it had a style unlike any other. Towers, [...]
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The Spectre of Typos
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Architecture, Miscellaneous
While doing a little bit of research into Guilbert & Betelle’s New Rochelle High School, I came upon this postcard of Isaac E. Young High School, also in New Rochelle.
Isaac E. Young Middle School, as it is called now, is quintessential Collegiate Gothic, featuring red brick, a central tower with octagonal corners in the classic [...]
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Great Neck High School
August 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Architecture, Articles
The December, 1931 issue of The Architectural Forum article, “Nine Senior High School Buildings” featured two Guilbert & Betelle schools; Great Neck High School and The Bronxville School. The text and illustrations for Great Neck High School (now Great Neck North High School) are shown here.
While Betelle is on record as preferring the Collegiate [...]
The Bronxville School, Bronxville, N.Y.
July 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Architecture
The December, 1931 issue of The Architectural Forum featured the article, Nine Senior High School Buildings. Two Guilbert & Betelle projects were illustrated; Great Neck High School and The Bronxville School). The text and illustrations for The Bronxville School are shown here.
Interestingly, this school was a collaboration with the architect Harry Leslie Walker, who had [...]