Landmark School: The Building

The photo is from New York Architecture PS 39 images.

architect	Samuel B. Leonard, Superintendent of Buildings for the City of Brooklyn Board of Education.
location	417 Sixth Ave., NE cor. 8th St.
date	1876-1877.

The New York Architecture website describes the PS 39 building:
Built in 1877,the building is a historical landmark. A mansarded Victorian school house in painted brick and rusticated brownstone.
The Second Empire (of Napoleon III) influenced the far reaches of Brooklyn only 5 years after his downfall.