<P> In 1871 Blow traveled to New York , where she spent a year being trained at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten , operated by Froebel devotee Maria Kraus - Boelté . Blow returned to St. Louis in 1873 and opened the nation 's first public kindergarten in Des Peres School in Carondelet , which by then had been annexed by the City of St. Louis . With the help of her two assistants , Mary Timberlake and Cynthia Dozier , Blow directed and taught a kindergarten class consisting of forty - two students . Not only did she pay all expenses to keep the kindergarten running that first year , she was not compensated for her hard work and dedication . About 150 women also volunteered to work at Blow 's kindergartens between 1876 - 1877 . </P>
<P> In 1871 Blow traveled to New York , where she spent a year being trained at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten , operated by Froebel devotee Maria Kraus - Boelté . Blow returned to St. Louis in 1873 and opened the nation 's first public kindergarten in Des Peres School in Carondelet , which by then had been annexed by the City of St. Louis . With the help of her two assistants , Mary Timberlake and Cynthia Dozier , Blow directed and taught a kindergarten class consisting of forty - two students . Not only did she pay all expenses to keep the kindergarten running that first year , she was not compensated for her hard work and dedication . About 150 women also volunteered to work at Blow 's kindergartens between 1876 - 1877 . </P>
when did the first public kindergarten open in the united states
when did the first public kindergarten open in the united states
1873
1873