The Guardian Angel School

 Romanesque (architecture), 1930_construction, Roman Catholic school

4-story Romanesque-revival school building completed in 1930. Designed by John V. Van Pelt for the adjoining Guardian Angel Church, the style of the schoolhouse is the same as the church. The facade mixes brick and limestone, with round-arched windows of various size and placements.

The ground floor has a limestone base, with iron grilles over low basement windows at the sidewalk level. Three small sets of grey stone steps, two at the north end, lead up to entrances, two of which are arched with drip moldings and crosses on top. The 2nd from the north is square-headed, topped by a stone panel carved with an angel, dragon, lion, and foliate ornament. There are two round-arched windows on either side of the south doorway, the southern two spaced farther apart, each with an iron grille and drip molding. All of the doorways and windows are edged in stone quoins.

A thin stone string course sets off the 2nd floor, which has a row of five small arched windows at the north end, and a larger round-arched window to the left, with a drip molding. The 3rd floor has a narrow square-headed window at the north end, followed by two small arched windows within a larger arch, separated by a small colonette, and then two larger round-arched windows, also with drip moldings. There are no windows on the south half of the upper floors. The 3rd floor is topped by a scalloped stone band surmounted by a metal railing. At the north half, a 4th floor rises up, clad in stone, with a row of colonettes across it, and two trios of small windows in between them. A small stone cornice caps this section. There are several seemingly random areas of white stone blocks spaced around the brick facade.

The school was founded in 1911, and run by the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh.