Kensington High School / / Frederick Law Olmsted School at Kensington

Kensington High School / Frederick Law Olmsted School at Kensington
319 Suffolk Street, Buffalo, New York

Center bay

Center bay ... Details below from the top down:

Center bay ... Copper roof ... Art Deco lettering and geometric ornamentation

Reeding ... Art Deco stylized bas-relief bison ... Cf., Market Arcade and Old Post Office/ECC

Center bay ... Common bond brick pattern (headers every 6th row) ... Center fountain ... Flanking sunbursts

Main entrance ... Owl detailed below:

Center bay ... Indiana(?) limestone ... Chevrons ... Scallops ... Owl: Mascot

Art Deco scalloped ornament

Center bay ... Bas-relief ... Reeding ... Chevrons

Facade south bays

Five details below, starting at top left:

Detail #1 - Fountains ... Flanking sunbursts

Detail #2 - Dentils ... Sunbursts with volutes

Detail #3 - Spandrel panels ... Torches ... Flames ... Chevrons

Detail #4 - Dentils ... American bond brick pattern

Detail #5 -
Art Deco stylized eagle ... Chevrons ... Scallops

Two northern bays

Auditorium entrance ... Three details below:

Auditorium entrance detail #1

Auditorium entrance detail #2 - Chevrons ... Art Deco lettering ... Owl ... Scallops

Auditorium entrance detail #3 - Chevrons

North entrance ... Two details below:

North entrance detail #1 - Spandrel panels

North entrance detail #2 - Chevrons

Cornerstone ... City seal detail below:

Erected	1934-1937. A project of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, the school was a child of the Depression (when Art Deco was popular).
Architect:	Daniel G. McNeil
Year Kensington HS closed:	2003
Beginning of the Olmsted School occupancy in the building:	2007
Neighborhood	Kensington-Bailey
Architectural Style	Art Deco. One of two public Art Deco buildings in Buffalo, the other being City Hall. (Central Terminal was privately financed.)