Trevor Day School

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5-story school building completed in 1973. Originally constructed as an annex of the Walden School, it was located adjacent to the school's original 1914 building, which was demolished to make way for the current residential building on the corner. It was named the Goodman Building after Walden alumnus and civil rights martyr Andrew Goodman.

The Walden School merged with New Lincoln School in 1988, and the New Walden Lincoln School then merged with The Day School in 1991. In that same year, the Goodman Building at 1 West 88th Street was acquired, allowing for an expansion of The Day School through 12th grade. In 1997, the Board of Trustees voted to rename The Day School in honor of the leadership and dedication of Paul Trevor, an early Board President. Growing with the needs of its student body, Trevor opened a state-of-the-art, LEED Gold,
105,000 square foot Middle & Upper School building on East 95th Street in 2015 and the Lower School relocated to the renovated Goodman Building on 88th Street.

The facade is clad in brown brick with a projecting central section at the 3rd-5th floors that is faced in concrete. The lower two floors have six bays of double-height, segmental-arched window openings, with two more bays to the right containing the main entrance, recessed below two shorter segmental-arched windows on the 2nd floor, separated from the doorways by concrete spandrel panels. The entry has red metal-and-glass doors atop a couple of steps.

The upper floors have eight bays of aluminum-framed double-windows above horizontal lower panes. Below the 3rd-floor windows runs a band of vertical grooves in the concrete, and another such band runs across the top of the 5th-floor windows. Between the 3rd-5th floors in the projecting concrete section are simple rectangular concrete panels. The 5th-floor window openings are segmental-arched.