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Brooklyn Academy of Music · 30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music

30 Lafayette Avenue. Brooklyn Academy of Music. St. Felix Street entrance

IMAGE DATE1931
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music, from St. Felix Street, ca. 1931.

Founded in 1861 in Brooklyn Heights as the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s original building was destroyed in a 1903 fire. The present building was designed by Herts & Tallant and opened in the fall of 1908 with a Metropolitan Opera performance of Faust.

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