Fosdick-Masten Park High School Explained

Fosdick-Masten Park High School
Location:	Masten Ave. and E. North St., Buffalo, New York
Coordinates:	42.9031°N -78.8606°W
Built:	1912-1914
Architect:	Esenwein & Johnson
Architecture:	Beaux Arts, Beaux Arts Classicism
Added:	June 30, 1983
Refnum:	83001672

Fosdick-Masten Park High School, now known as City Honors School, is a historic public high school building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The school is located on a 5.2acres site. It was designed by architects Esenwein & Johnson and is a -story H-shaped brick structure constructed in 1912–1914 and sheathed in white glazed terra cotta tile.^[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notable alumni

• Frankie Pytlak, former Major League Baseball catcher^[2]
• John Wyatt, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lucille Clifton, African American writer and poet

In Popular Culture

A cartoon sketch of (then) Masten Park High School appears on the 1938 Goudey baseball card #269 of alumnus Frankie Pytlak.^[3]

External links

• From Masten Park High School to City Honors: The Story of a School Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20190404141934/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ . dead . 2019-04-04 . . Searchable database . 2016-07-01 . Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fosdick-Masten Park High School . 2016-07-01 . Claire L. Ross . PDF . March 1983 . and Accompanying nine photographs
2. Web site: Frankie Pytlak . Baseball-Reference . 20 December 2022.
3. Web site: 1938 Goudey Heads-Up (R323) . Trading Card Database . 20 December 2022.