What We Know About Parsons School of Design’s Namesake
The story behind Frank Alvah Parsons, the man who made art and design accessible to New Yorkers
A hundred and fifty miles from Parsons’ campus in New York City is a small town in the foothills of the Pioneer Valley called Chester. With a population of 1,380, Chester’s only claim to fame was emery, a mineral used in the nineteenth century for grinding metal (and later finger ...
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