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{{Infobox school | established = 1860 | gender = Girls }}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2016}} The '''Gardner School for Girls''' was an American private school for girls that operated in New York City, New York, in the 19th and 20th centuries.
==History== The school was established in 1860 by a Baptist minister.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire|last=Claridge|first=Laura|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2016|isbn=9780374114251|edition= First|location=New York|pages=10–12|oclc=908176194}}</ref> The school was headed for many years by Mrs. Charles H. Gardner.<ref name=postmaster/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQswAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 |title=Private Schools, New York City and Vicinity |date=1915 |journal=Scribner's Magazine |volume= 57 |quote=58th year |last1=Burlingame |first1=Edward Livermore |last2=Bridges |first2=Robert |last3=Dashiell |first3=Alfred Sheppard |last4=Logan |first4=Harlan }}</ref>
For several decades it was located at 607 Fifth Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets.<ref name=postmaster>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/21/120287910.pdf |title=For a New Postmaster: Complaint of Inefficiency in Non-Delivery of Letters with Slight Error in Address |author=H.L. Sargent |newspaper= The New York Times |date=August 21, 1904}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9NgvAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA21 |title=Educational Directory |journal=Scribner's Magazine |year=1907| volume=41| page=21|last1=Burlingame |first1=Edward Livermore |last2=Bridges |first2=Robert |last3=Dashiell |first3=Alfred Sheppard |last4=Logan |first4=Harlan }}</ref> Later, from 1916 to 1933 the school was located at 11 East 51st Street in the former home of John Peirce, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.<ref>{{cite web| title= Commission Approves Prospect Heights Historic District in Brooklyn, City's largest since 1990, and three new Landmarks in Manhattan |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/press/06_23_09.pdf |type=press release | publisher=The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |date=June 23, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx0gAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA24 |title=Schools |journal=House & Garden |volume=41 |page=22 |year=1922 }}</ref>
==Notable students== Among the women who attended the Gardner School were the following: * Carman Barnes – writer<ref>{{cite web |author=Gastner, Carol B. |year=1979 |title =Carman Dee Barnes |editor=Mainiero, Lina |work=American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. 1 |location=New York |publisher= Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. |pages=102–04 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3400300073.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224225841/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3400300073.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-24|via=HighBeam Research }}</ref> * Patricia Ellis – actress<ref name=mbs>{{cite news|title=Daughter of Famous Director Is Signed by Picture Company|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3829787/montana_butte_standard/|agency=Montana Butte Standard|date=June 5, 1932|location=Montana, Butte|page=23|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = December 15, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> * Mary Hatcher – actress and singer<ref name="is">{{cite news |title=A Hoosier Heard Her Sing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23724533/mary_hatcher/ |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=January 9, 1946 |location=Indiana, Indianapolis |page=8|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 14, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> * Blanche Knopf – publisher<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=McGrath|first1=Charles|title=Desk Set|magazine= The New Yorker |date= April 11, 2016|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/blanche-knopfs-literary-influence}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> * Mary Craig Sinclair – writer<ref name=":0" />
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