Holy Name School (New York City, New York)

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4-story school building completed in 1905. Designed by Thomas H. Poole, it was built as the Holy Name School for the adjacent Holy Name of Jesus Church. It has subsequently been recently occupied by a succession of various schools, including Essex Day School, De La Salle Academy, and The Windward School, before reverting to the Holy Name School, serving elementary and middle school students.

The facade is clad in grey brick with limestone trim above a limestone basement fronted by a moat enclosed by iron fencing. The 5-bay east facade on the avenue has three entrances, in the center and end bays, each with a wide, low set of steps crossing the basement moat. They have red wooden double-doors set in pointed-arches framed by stone keys. The center entrance is flanked by two pairs of angular stone columns that narrow towards the tops, widening again between two string courses that cap the ground floor, where there are quatrefoils between them. The outer ones care capped by pointed finials at the 2nd floor, and there is a cross in the center, above a cartouche over the doorway. The other two bays have groups of four windows with upper transoms, set in stone keyed surrounds; there are also stone keys at the ends of the facade.

The upper floors have groups of four windows (with upper transoms) in the middle three bays, and 3-window groups in the end bays, all framed by keyed stone surrounds and resting on sill courses. A stone cornice tops the 4th-floor windows, with a brick roof parapet above that is capped by a metal coping.

The north facade on 97th Street has a center bay of four windows on the upper floors. To the east are two 3-window bays, and to the west another 4-window bay and a 3-window bay, like those on the east facade. At the ground floor the center bay and west end bay have additional entrances atop low sets of steps, with red wooden double-doors below pointed-arches. The limestone base extends up to the bottoms of the ground-floor windows (halfway up the doorways), and there are single-windows at the basement level (also along the east facade).

The south facade is clad in the same brick, and has one 3-window bay at the east end, followed by a 2-window bay. The west part if set back, faced in white stucco, and has two 4-window bays and a 3-window bay.