Public School 17 (original) (raw)

Public School 17 is a historic school located at City Island in the Bronx, New York City. It was designed by architect C. B. J. Snyder (1860–1945) and built in 1897 in the Neo-Georgian style. A rear addition was built in 1930. It is a two-story, five-bay brick building on a high basement. It features a shallow wooden entrance porch with Doric order columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. A fire allegedly set by vandals on July 13, 2007, damaged the building's façade.