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In 1838, after a ten-year period in which ted by changes in the School’s location. The first
Trinity was served by six “Rectors” (as they was in 1864, to 467 Eighth Avenue between
were termed in the nineteenth century), the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. The spot
girls’ portion of the School was dropped, only had formerly been owned by the Blind Asylum
to be refounded as the St. Agatha School in 1898 and occupied by a Demolition Company and
and dropped again in 1941. some United States military offices. The second
In 1857 the School moved again, this time move under Holden was in 1873, to 648 Seventh
to 181 West Fourteenth Street near Eighth Ave­ Avenue on Times Square, or Longacre Square
nue. This was under the administration of as it was then called. This spot is now the site
Charles D’Urban Morris, who was described by of the Hotel Astor.
the Reverend Mr. Webbe, class of 1864, as being The third move, in 1889, was to 627 Madison
a “radical” headmaster. Avenue, at Fifty-ninth Street. 1 his building was
By 1859 Trinity reached the age when insti­ occupied only for one year. The main cause of
tutions celebrate their anniversaries. In this year a the institution’s next move, to 108 West Forty-
one hundred fiftieth anniversary service was held fifth Street, was what a document of the time
at Trinity Chapel downtown. All five classes of referred to as the “certain environs.” 1 he “en­
the School attended the service, and, in honor of virons” were a panorama of the Monitor and
the occasion, the first and second classes were the Merrimac on the first floor, to which great
given Greek Testaments, the third was given a mobs came and, in the spring with the windows
Book of Common Prayer, the fourth a History open, disturbed the young scholars.
of Greece, and the fifth a life of Bishop Ken The School, now under the Reverend August
(1637-1711 ), bishop under Charles II who re­ Ulmann (1890-1903), stayed at Forty-fifth
fused to publish the Declaration of Indulgences. Street until moving to its present site. The
The next Rector (1863-90) was the Reverend School monthly for February, 1893, carried the
Robert Holden, whose administration was spot­ following announcement: “On Wednesday, Feb-

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