Erasmus Hall Campus High School is a four-year public high school in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Erasmus Hall High School, originally called Erasmus Hall Academy, a private institution of higher learning founded in 1786 by Dutch settlers in Vlacke bos ("flat woodland"), Anglicized to "Flatbush", was the first secondary school chartered by the New York Regents. The clapboard-sided, ...
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Erasmus Hall Campus High School is a four-year public high school in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Erasmus Hall High School, originally called Erasmus Hall Academy, a private institution of higher learning founded in 1786 by Dutch settlers in Vlacke bos ("flat woodland"), Anglicized to "Flatbush", was the first secondary school chartered by the New York Regents. The clapboard-sided, Federal style building, constructed in 1787 on land donated by the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church still located at 890 Flatbush Avenue (designated a New York City Landmark in 1966), continued in use and was donated to the public school system in 1896.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Brooklyn experienced a rapidly growing population, and the original small school was enlarged with the addition of several wings and the purchase of several nearby buildings. In 1904, the Board of Education began a new building campaign to house the...
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