{"nrhp_refnum":"87001258","name":"Public School 9","other_names":["Livingston School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"466 W. End Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.78636384500004,"lon":-73.97914530699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"P.S. 9 (Livingston School) is a five-story public school building with a basement at 464-466 West End Avenue, at the northeast corner of West 82nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It was designed by C.B.J. Snyder and built between 1892 and 1895.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is a distinguished example of neo-Flemish style school architecture, designed early in the career of Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education. It is the oldest surviving public school building on the Upper West Side and the only survivor of four Flemish-inspired schools Snyder designed in the 1890s. It also reflects the development of the West End district and Snyder's concerns with light, ventilation and fireproof construction.","narrative":"Occupying a corner lot at West End Avenue and West 82nd Street, P.S. 9 is a five-story public school that has operated continuously since 1895. Built of pale yellow Roman brick with gray limestone trim, it features stepped Flemish-style gables, a pointed-arched entrance porch, and several stoops leading to separate entrances. Inside, the original classroom and hall layout survives, along with a gymnasium, an auditorium with cast-iron Corinthian columns, and built-in wardrobes and cabinets. C.B.J. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings for the city's Board of Education, designed it between 1892 and 1895. It is the oldest surviving public school on the Upper West Side and the only survivor of four neo-Flemish schools he designed in the 1890s. The style matched the row houses and church of the developing West End area. Snyder also built it to be fireproof, with iron, marble and hollow brick replacing wood, and large windows for light and air.","period_of_significance":"1892-95","architect_builder":"C.B.J. Snyder (architect); P.J. Walsh (contractor)","architectural_style":"Neo-Flemish","criteria":[],"status_note":"In continuous operation as a public school since its completion in 1895; described as retaining a very high degree of exterior integrity and much of its original interior plan.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.258547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001258/398b78c098-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001258/398b78c098-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"This photo was taken by participant/team Team Boerum as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on October 4, 2008. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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