page_title: Browning School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Browning School / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking south across 62nd Street at en:Browning School on a cloudy evening.
context_page_description: The Browning School is an independent school for boys in New York City. It was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. It offers instruction in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The school is a member of the New York Interschool consortium.
context_section_description: The school was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. Arthur Jones succeeded Browning as headmaster, in 1920, moved the school from West 55th Street to its present location on East 62nd Street, and also expanded extracurricular activities. Jones retired in 1948; Lyman B. Tobin, a Browning teacher for more than 30 years, became the school's third headmaster.
  In 1952, upon Tobin's retirement, the school named teacher Charles W. Cook (class of 1938), as its fourth headmaster. Under his 36-year leadership, the Browning School expanded rapidly. After a lengthy fundraising drive, the school bought the adjoining carriage house and rebuilt it, and the new building opened in 1960. The school's expansion continued in 1967, with the building of a larger gymnasium on the roof and, in the late 1970s, with the acquisition of an interest in the building next door.
  In 1988, Stephen M. Clement, III became Browning's fifth headmaster and served a tenure of 28 years. John M. Botti was appointed  Head of School in 2016. Serving over 400 students, the school has more than doubled its size 50 years. A new library, four new science laboratories, two new art studios, and additional classrooms have been built.
  Browning is a part of Interschool, a consortium of eight schools to enhance academic, extracurricular, and administrative sharing. Interschool comprises four schools for girls, (Brearley, Chapin, Nightingale-Bamford, and Spence); two schools for boys, (Collegiate and itself); and two coeducational schools, (Dalton and Trinity). Browning also maintains strong relationships with both Marymount and Hewitt schools.
caption: 52 East 62nd Street
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