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P.S. No 65 Borough of Brooklyn

P.S. No 65 Borough of Brooklyn/Richmond St. Cypress Hills [handwritten on recto]

Street view of P.S. No 65 in Brooklyn. Scrapbook page from "Views of Queens County" by Eugene Armbruster.

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Public School 65 ARCHITECT: James W. Naughton DATE: 1870 STYLE: Romanesque Revival

Public School 65K, in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, was originally built in 1870 and given its present Romanesque Revival facade by James W. Naughton in 1889. The building still functions as a public school and serves as a living reminder of the long history of public education in Kings County.

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