{"nrhp_refnum":"82003363","name":"Public School 108","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Lindwood St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.68135057500007,"lon":-73.88442588399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Public School 108 is a three-story-plus-attic Romanesque Revival school building at 200 Linwood Street in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, built in 1895 to designs by James W. Naughton.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that P.S. 108 is one of the few nineteenth-century Brooklyn school buildings that survives and still serves as a school. It is an imposing example of the mature Richardsonian-influenced Romanesque Revival style, which was at its height in Brooklyn in 1895. It also represents the work of Naughton, who designed all Brooklyn school buildings in the twenty years before 1898.","narrative":"Built in 1895 at 200 Linwood Street in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills neighborhood, Public School 108 is a Romanesque Revival school of brick and Lake Superior sandstone. It rises three stories above a rough-faced stone basement, with a dormered attic floor, and is arranged symmetrically around a seven-bay central entrance section flanked by recessed wings and three-bay end pavilions. Round-arched third-floor windows, quoins, a stone cornice, and a skyline of dormers, a tall chimney and hipped roofs give it a picturesque profile. Inside, original moldings, enframements and doors remain. James W. Naughton, Superintendent of Buildings for Brooklyn's Board of Education, designed it, drawing on the Richardsonian Romanesque style that was then at its peak in Brooklyn. It was listed because it is one of few handsome nineteenth-century Brooklyn school buildings that survives and still functions as a school, reflecting the area's long commitment to public education.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date 1895)","architect_builder":"James W. Naughton","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival (Richardsonian Romanesque influence)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition and unaltered, occupied and in educational use as a public school; the interior retains many original moldings, enframements and doors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.061132-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003363.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003363/cf25c4bc2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003363/cf25c4bc2d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PS_108_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_108_Brooklyn.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318491","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_School_108","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257548"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/public-school-108-82003363/"}