One of the locations of a kindergarten of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-94), considered the founder of the kindergarten movement in the United States, was at 15 Pinckney Street which, although no longer standing, was the mirror image of 17 Pinckney Street. Influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Fröebel, Peabody became an advocate for kindergartens nationwide, publishing the Kindergarten Messenger and organizing the American Froebel Union. She was a link between the visionaries of the Transcendental movement and educational reformers.
