Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was founded in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts. Comprising six schools, the institute is primarily known for its programs in architecture, graphic design, interior design, and industrial design.
Charles Pratt, founder of Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute Kindergarten, 1905
World War One Memorial in the Rose Garden
DeKalb Avenue Gate of Enclosed Campus
Charles Pratt was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867. Seven years later, Pratt and Rogers agreed to join John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
Charles Pratt
Share of the Standard Oil Trust, issued 18. January 1883, owned by Charles Pratt
Pratt's name, written in stone in the Standard Oil Building lobby
Pratt's city home in Brooklyn, built 1874–1875