New York City Landmarks Preserva
The 121-year-old residential building at 143 S. Eighth St. in Williamsburg, formerly home to the Long Island Business College, has been unanimously designated a landmark.
Brooklyn’s original business school is now a city landmark.
The 121-year-old Long Island Business College building on S. Eighth St. in Williamsburg was unanimously designated for the historic status by the Landmarks Preservation Commission Tuesday.
“This charming building still retains a strong presence on the street, and remains as evocative of its original mission today as it did 121 years ago,” said the agency’s Chairman Robert Tierney.
The Second Empire and Romanesque Revival building was originally home to the business college, where students trained for jobs in banking and insurance.
The lecture hall at the college played host to the leading intellectuals of the time including Eugene V. Debs, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Carrie Chapman Catt, a leading suffragette.
And if that’s not enough history, Mayor John Hylan is a graduate.
The building later became a seminary, and housed Holocaust survivors after World War II.
It remained a seminary until 1984, when it was converted to residential use.
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