Fosdick-Masten Park High School

United States historic place


Fosdick-Masten Park High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

City Honors School as viewed from Best Street, June 2006
42°54′11″N 78°51′38″W / 42.90306°N 78.86056°W / 42.90306; -78.86056
Built	1912-1914
Architect	Esenwein & Johnson
Architectural style	Beaux Arts, Beaux Arts Classicism
NRHP reference No.	83001672^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1983

Fosdick-Masten Park High School, now known as City Honors School, is a historic public high school building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The school is located on a 5.2-acre (2.1 ha) site. It was designed by architects Esenwein & Johnson and is a 3+1⁄2-story H-shaped brick structure constructed in 1912–1914 and sheathed in white glazed terra cotta tile.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

Notable alumni

Frankie Pytlak, former Major League Baseball catcher^[3]
John Wyatt, former Major League Baseball pitcher
Lucille Clifton, African American writer and poet

In Popular Culture

A cartoon sketch of (then) Masten Park High School appears on the 1938 Goudey baseball card #269 of alumnus Frankie Pytlak.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-07-01. Note: This includes Claire L. Ross (March 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fosdick-Masten Park High School" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01. and Accompanying nine photographs
^ "Frankie Pytlak". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ "1938 Goudey Heads-Up (R323)". Trading Card Database. Retrieved 20 December 2022.