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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Theater · Fort Greene, New York

BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building

A performing arts institution occupying three buildings: the Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue, BAM Strong at 651 Fulton Street and the Fisher at 321 Ashland Place.

History

Incorporated by the New York State Legislature in 1859 and first opened in Brooklyn Heights in 1861. After that building burned in 1903, BAM moved to Fort Greene, laying the cornerstone in 1907 and opening the Herts & Tallant-designed Peter Jay Sharp Building in November 1908. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2006.

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30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

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Photo "BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building": Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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