Join a member of Pratt Institute’s History of Art and Design Department for an architectural walking tour of Pratt’s historic campus and surrounding area. The campus at Pratt Institute is a historical treasure, stretching over 25 acres and home to several landmark Clinton Hill buildings. The foundations were laid in 1887, when Lamb and Rich’s Main Hall opened on Ryerson Street. Several more followed, including East Hall, above which towers Pratt’s smokestack, and the Pratt Library by William Tubby with interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany, the first lending library open to the public in Brooklyn. Since then the campus has been enclosed and made into a sculpture park through which local residents can stroll. The Pratt family is also responsible for the construction of several mansions along the historic Clinton Avenue. On this tour, visitors will go inside the Main Hall, Student Union, and Library, then venture off campus to see the Clinton Avenue mansions and their carriage houses gifted by Charles Pratt to his children and grandchildren.
Join a member of Pratt Institute’s History of Art and Design Department for an architectural walking tour of Pratt’s historic campus and surrounding area.
The campus at Pratt Institute is a historical treasure, stretching over 25 acres and home to several landmark Clinton Hill buildings. The foundations were laid in 1887, when Lamb and Rich’s Main Hall opened on Ryerson Street. Several more followed, including East Hall, above which towers Pratt’s smokestack, and the Pratt Library by William Tubby with interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany, the first lending library open to the public in Brooklyn. Since then the campus has been enclosed and made into a sculpture park through which local residents can stroll. The Pratt family is also responsible for the construction of several mansions along the historic Clinton Avenue.
On this tour, visitors will go inside the Main Hall, Student Union, and Library, then venture off campus to see the Clinton Avenue mansions and their carriage houses gifted by Charles Pratt to his children and grandchildren.
The walking tour will last 1 hour and cover about 10 city blocks in total.
1887; Lamb and Rich (others)
200 Willoughby Avenue
Meet at Pratt's cannon in the plaza in front of the library (next to Hall Street), New York, NY 11231