On Feb. 14, Ben Frisch, in his 34th year teaching at Friends Seminary, a private school in downtown Manhattan, was seeking to demonstrate an obtuse angle in an 11th-grade math class. Straightening his ...

The new Skyspace at the Friends Seminary school in Gramercy. Photo: John Galayda Turrell is a practicing Quaker who donated his time and sold an artwork to help with the cost, and the school raised $3 ...

Friends Seminary, an independent Quaker School in New York City, is in one way a natural place for an artwork by James Turrell, a Quaker artist. Newly installed there is one of the artist’s trademark ...

Neighbors protesting a big expansion of Friends Seminary in Manhattan thought they had it made when the city Landmarks Preservation Commission adopted their many objections and shot down the plan.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Friends Seminary, New York City’s oldest continuously operated coeducational independent school, announced today the planned retirement of Bo Lauder, Head of School, at the ...

Facadism, the act of retaining a historic facade whilst fundamentally adapting a structure’s interior, is often maligned by preservationists as relegating historic architecture to urban set pieces.