Construction of City College School of Business and
Civic Administration, 1929
CCNY established the School of Business and Civic Administration in 1919. In
its first year, 2,833 students attended classes in the partly renovated Free
Academy building on 23rd Street. The new school offered undergraduate and graduate
degrees in business. Many students attended evening classes, working part-time
toward a degree in accounting. The school moved out of the original Free Academy
building and into temporary quarters in 1926. The eighty-year-old building was
demolished in February 1928. Construction of a new building to house the School
of Business and Civic Administration was begun on the site of the Free Academy
in December 1929 and was completed in 1930.
