Hammondsport Union Free School, also known as Hammondsport Academy and Hammondsport High School, is a historic

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...

building located at

Hammondsport Hammondsport is a village at the south end of Keuka Lake, in Steuben County, one of the Finger Lakes of New York, United States. The Village of Hammondsport is in the Town of Urbana and is northeast of Bath. History Lazarus Hammond founded ...

Steuben County, New York Steuben County (stu-BEN) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,584. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a Prussian general who fought on the American ...

. It is a three-story stone structure in the

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style. The earliest section was built in 1858 as a private secondary school, Hammondsport Academy. It was converted to a public union school in 1875, and was expanded in three additions over the next 38 years (1891, 1898, and 1913). It served as a school until 1935 and has been used for other public functions, including as the original home of the

Glenn H. Curtiss Museum The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum is a transportation museum in Hammondsport, New York with a focus on the early aviator Glenn H. Curtiss. The 60,000 square foot facility has a collection of aircraft, vintage motorcycles, automobiles, and aircraft eng ...

from 1962 to 1994, and for many years as the Hammondsport Public Library and municipal offices. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 2008. It was converted to apartments by Arbor Housing and Development, a non-profit group in Bath, NY.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) School buildings completed in 1858 Buildings and structures in Steuben County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Steuben County, New York {{SteubenCountyNY-NRHP-stub