Fourteenth Ward Industrial School

	Fourteenth Ward Industrial School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	New York City Landmark No. 0960
Location	256-258 Mott Street, Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°43′24.5″N 73°59′40″W / 40.723472°N 73.99444°W
Built	1888-89
Architect	Vaux & Radford
Architectural style	Victorian Gothic
NRHP reference No.	83001724
NYCL No.	0960
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 27, 1983
Designated NYCL	July 12, 1977

The Fourteenth Ward Industrial School is located at 256-258 Mott Street between Prince and Houston Streets in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built for the Children's Aid Society in 1888–89, with funds provided by John Jacob Astor III, and was designed by the firm of Vaux & Radford in the Victorian Gothic style.^[2] The Society built a number of schools for indigent children at the time.^[2] It was later known as the Astor Memorial School.^[3]^[4]

The building, which is now in residential use, was designated a New York City landmark in 1977, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Notes

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.
^ Anne B. Covell (September 1982). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Fourteenth Ward Industrial School. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 10, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)