Public School 108 is a historic school building located in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn

Cypress Hills, Brooklyn

Cypress Hills is a sub-section of the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, lying north of City Line and south of Cypress Hills Cemetery, in the far northeastern corner of Brooklyn. It is abutted on the west by Bushwick and on the east, across the Brooklyn–Queens border, by...

, New York, New York

New York City

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. It was designed by James W. Naughton

James W. Naughton

James W. Naughton was an American architect, the Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1848, at age eight. He worked as an apprentice in the office of J & A Douglas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ...

 and built in 1895. It is a three story, brick building trimmed in Lake Superior sandstone

Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...

 in the Romanesque Revival

Romanesque Revival architecture

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 style. It has an attic fourth floor pierced by dormer

Dormer

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 windows. It consists of a seven bay central section connected to three bay wide end pavilions by recessed wings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1982.