![]() Alfonzo had been a student at the school but died of typhoid fever after studying at Yale University. George Bywater Cluett, an owner of the Cluett, Peabody & Company in Troy, donated money for the construction of a gymnasium and swimming pool 3 as a memorial to his son, Alfonzo Rockwell Cluett. 5 Modeled after similar British schools, academic years were designated as forms, with the first form being the seventh grade up to the sixth form being the twelfth grade. Paul’s became a college preparatory academy on the recommendation of the headmaster, Frederick L. ![]() The endowment left behind by Stewart for the building’s maintenance and operation was described as paltry but despite some financial challenges early on, the school prospered. 5 The remainder of the building contained dormitory space for 300 students and apartments for teachers on the second, third and fourth floors. Paul’s Congress, the school’s debating society, an infirmary, gymnasium, and chemical and physical laboratories. 5 The second floor contained a 400-seat chapel, 1 lecture and concert hall, a meeting room for St. The first floor contained a library, parlors, dining room, and eight classrooms. Outside were elaborate cast-iron balustrades, Dorchester stone trim, and poly-chromatic voussoir arched windows. Harris in the High Victorian Gothic 1 / English Gothic 5 / Ruskinian Gothic 11 style, the 350-student military school 6 was 300-foot long and 175-foot deep, anchored by a clock and bell tower. Paul’s School was laid on June 18, 1879, 5 7 and it was completed at the cost of $800,000 on September 20, 1883. 10 All would be built and maintained by a fund provided by Cornelia Stewart in memory of her husband 5 7 and operated by the Cathedral of the Incarnation in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Mary’s School for Girls (completed 1892). After his death in 1876, his widow, Cornelia Stewart, planned three buildings and parkland to the city: Cathedral of the Incarnation (completed 1885), St. 11 Stewart had founded Floral City in 1869 as a community for his workers. Paul’s School was originally part of a memorial to Floral City’s founder, Alexander Turney Stewart, 10 a Manhattan department store and hotel magnate.
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