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Packard Commercial School, ca. 1910. In 1858 Silas Packard started a commercial school out of two rooms at Cooper Union. His students learned the math, business, and secretarial skills needed to work as clerks in commercial firms. He would go to write a number of popular textbooks on the topic. Outgrowing a succession of buildings in the late 29th century, the school purchased a plot at 35th Street in 1910. Designed by architect H. F. Ballantyne, the Packard Commercial School was described by the architect himself as, "Georgian, or rather a modern adaptation of that early American style sometimes called Colonial.” The Commercial School closed by the mid century and the building was purchased by Yeshiva University for a women's educational facility (Stern College for Women), which it remains today.

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Packard Commercial School

253 Lexington Avenue at the S.E. corner of East 35th Street. Packard Commercial School.
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Packard Commercial School

Packard Commercial School, 253 Lexington Avenue at E. 35th Street, New York City, undated \[ca. November 1915].
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Packard Commercial School

Manhattan: Lexington Avenue - 34th Street Lexington Avenue, east side, north from 34th Street, showing the Packard School at the S.E. corner of East 35th Street and the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany at the N.E. corner of same. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany will occupy a new church (to be erected) on York Avenue, at the N.W. corner of East 74th Street, after nearly a century at the N.E. corner of Lexington Avenue and East 35th Street. Since the sale of this property (May 1936) to Dr. Charles V. Paterno, a real estate specialist, the congregation has been using the St. Thomas Chapel on East 60th Street as a temporary place of worship. The Reverend Dr. John Wallace Suter Jr. has been the rector since the retirement of the Reverend William T. Crocker in 1933, who had held the position for 30 years. This data was reported in THE NEW YORK SUN of SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1937. Dr. Paterno traded this cleared site in 1939 for an apartment building on Central Park South. The new owner is completing a modern apartment house here in June, 1940. September 30, 1933 P. L. Sperr
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Packard Commercial School

Packard Commercial School. Lexington Ave. and 35th Street
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