Miner Teachers College - Washington, D.C.

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Miner Teachers College - Washington, D.C.

Miner Teachers College (also known as Miner Building - Howard University, Miner Normal School, Miner Normal School for Colored Girls) located at 2565 Georgia Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. Completed in 1914, the Colonial Revival building was designed by Leon E. Dessez and Snowden Ashford. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), a pioneer for Black female education, established the “Normal School for Colored Girls,” also known as the “Miner School for Girls” in 1851; its eventual large, three-story, symmetrically-massed Colonial Revival brick…