{"nrhp_refnum":"81000408","name":"Public School 65K","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"158 Richmond St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.683263329000056,"lon":-73.87729385499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Public School 65K is a two-story brick school building at 158 Richmond Street in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, New York. The original school dates to 1870, and its present Romanesque Revival facade was added in 1889.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the few nineteenth-century Brooklyn school buildings that survives and still operates as a school. Its 1889 facade by James W. Naughton is a modified early Romanesque Revival design that also draws on Queen Anne and Gothic details. It reflects the long local concern for education.","narrative":"Public School 65K, at 158 Richmond Street in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, is a brick school that has been in use since 1870. It was built to house students who had previously met in a nearby Methodist church. In 1889, after Cypress Hills had become part of the City of Brooklyn, extensions were added to the front and rear, and the front addition gave the building its present Romanesque Revival facade. The design is by James W. Naughton, who served as Superintendent of Buildings for the Brooklyn Board of Education for nearly twenty years. The two-story building has a slightly projecting central tower, a compound round-arched entrance, arched windows and terra-cotta plaques drawn from the Queen Anne style. Gothic-derived trefoils decorate the second-floor window tympana. The nomination values it as one of the few handsome nineteenth-century Brooklyn schools that survives and still serves as a school.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Original architect unknown; James W. Naughton did the 1889 extension","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in use as an educational facility; condition given as good and altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.442556-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/81000408.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000408/21b9b3c46e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000408/21b9b3c46e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PS_65_Brooklyn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PS_65_Brooklyn.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_School_65K","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257555"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/public-school-65k-81000408/"}