Public School 65K 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 originally built in 1870 and significantly expanded in 1889 to designs 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. ...

. It is a two story, brick building on a stone base in the Romanesque Revival

Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...

 style. It features a slightly projecting central tower and terra cotta

Terra cotta

Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta is a clay-based unglazed ceramic, although the term can also be applied to glazed ceramics where the fired body is porous and red in color...

 decorative details.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1981.