LUNDY'S LANE SCHOOL AT GREEN'S CORNER

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Historical Notes

STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE VALUE THIS SITE HAS CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE TO THE CITY OF NIAGARA FALLS THROUGH ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE EARLY SETTLERS THE GREENS AND LUNDYS (F0R WHOM LUNDYS LANE WAS NAMED) AND WITH THE 'OLD RED MEETING HOUSE' (BUILT IN 1817), THE METHODIST MEETING HOUSE WHICH ONCE STOOD ON THE SITE AS WELL AS ITS ADJACENT CEMETERY (NOW LUNDYS LANE CEMETERY) STILL LOCATED EAST OF THIS STRUCTURE. THIS PARCEL OF LAND WAS ALSO THE LOCATION OF THREE EARLY STAMFORD TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL SECTION 5. THIS BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN 1915 IS THE LAST AND ONLY ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS STILL IN EXISTENCE, ONE OF ONLY TWO SCHOOL BUILDINGS SURVIVING IN THE CITY OF NIAGARA FALLS FROM THE PERIOD 1910-1915 AND THE ONLY REMAINING RURAL TWO ROOM SCHOOL OF THAT ERA. ARCHITECTURALLY, IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY EDWARDIAN CLASSICAL STYLY, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS SIMPLIFIED AND EXAGGERATED CLASSICAL ELEMENTS AND CLEAN LINES. FEATURES SUCH AS THE ONES LISTED ABOVE ARE TYPICAL OF THE STYLE. IT ALSO DISPLAYS UNIQUE DESIGN FEATURES SUCH AS THE PAIRED SIDE WINDOWS WITH SEGMENTAL ARCH ABOVE AND RECESSED FRONT ENTRY. FROM 1953 TO 1962 IT WAS HOME TO THE STAMFORD TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT AND COURT, AND LATER THE NIAGARA FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT. MOST RECENTLY IT HAS BEEN USED AS AN ART GALLERY AND OFFICE SPACE FOR THE CITY'S DIVISION OF PARKS, RECREATION & CULTURE.

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THE OLD LUNDYS LANE SCHOOL AT GREEN'S CORNERS WAS DESIGNED IN THE EDWARDIAN CLASSICAL STYLE TYPICAL FOR EARLY 20TH CENTURY SCHOOLS IN THE NIAGARA PENINSULA. SIMPLIFIED AND EXAGGERATED CLASSICAL ELEMENTS AND CLEAN LINES WERE THE HALLMARKS OF THIS STYLE. ITS DOMINANT ARCHITECTURAL STYLE EVIDENCED BY THE FOLLOWING FEATURES: HIGH FOUNDATION OF ROCK FACED STONE SET IN REGULAR COURSES; DOORS AND WINDOWS, SINGLE AND PAIRED, SET ON STONE SILLS AND TOPPED WITH TRIPLE ROWS OF BRICK VOUSSOIRS, AND LARGE CONTRASTING KEYSTONES; BRICK QUOINS; PORTICO ENTRANCE WITH A SIMPLE PEDIMENT SUPPORTED BY SHORT WOODEN COLONETTES ON BRICK PIERS; PROJECTING EAVES SUPPORTED BY SCROLL BRACKETS AND A HIPPED ROOF. OTHER KEY FEATURES: FRONT AND BACK ROOF DORMERS WITH DIAMOND PANED WINDOWS; SURVIVING WOODEN DOUBLE HUNG WINDOWS ON THE FRONT(SOUTH) FACADE, EAST (TWO BAYS) EAST AND NORTH FACADES; TRANSOMS OVER THE SOUTH, EAST AND WEST ENTRANCE DOORS WITH DIAMOND PANED WINDOWS AND DOUBLE FRONT ENTRANCE DOORS OF WOOD WITH TWO PANELS, THE UPPER HALF GLAZED.