Henry C. Moses Building (Trinity School)

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4-story modernist school building completed in 1998. Designed by Buttrick White & Burtis, the building houses the Middle School division of Trinity School, along with two gyms. It was named for Henry C. Moses, who became the 27th headmaster of Trinity School in 1991. The facade is clad in red brick, glass, and metal, with a brown granite water table.

The entrance is at the west end, abutting the Middle School housed in the former St. Agnes parish house, and has a 4-story curtain wall of green-tinted glass and steel. The upper floors here have five window panes per floor, with glass spandrels between floors. The ground floor has glass-and-wood double-doors between two plate-glass windows.

To the right, the brick section has four bays of triple-windows on the lower two floors, each separated by white cast-stone mullions and topped by thick cast-stone lintels. Beginning at the 2nd bay from the west, the granite water table extends out to enclose a landscaping area; as it moves east, the water table grows shorter, and the metal railing on top grows taller. At the east end the lower two floors have two bays of single-windows, also with white cast-stone lintels. There is thin banding in the brick of these two floors between each bay. The 3rd floor has a small single-window above the westernmost bay in the brick section, as well as above the single-windows at the east end, and in between is a wide band of tall windows in silver metal framing. The 4th floor is hidden behind a sloping metal mansard that is slightly set-back above the curtain wall section at the west end.