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Francis Junior High School: This school, which opened in 1928, was the District's first purpose-built junior high for African American students.
Francis Junior High School, which opened in 1928, was the District's first purpose-built junior high for African American students. The original building, dating to 1927-29, was designed by DC…
Eastern High School: This Capitol Hill high school was designed in a Collegiate Gothic style and has been a major landmark along East Capitol Street for a century.
Eastern High School, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the 1700 block of East Capitol Street NE, was constructed between 1921 and 1923 and designed by Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford in…
Smothers Elementary School: This school, named for Henry Smothers, has welcomed students since the 1920s.
As DC’s urban landscape grew to accommodate its growing population, so did its young population of school-aged children. While schoolhouses existed throughout the city for these children, they were…
12th Precinct Station House: The Twelfth Precinct Station House stands as one of seven remaining buildings constructed in the early 20th century as purpose-built police stations in the District.
Constructed in the 1920s, the 12th Precinct Station House is architecturally significant as a prominent example of the Colonial Revival style in the District. Additionally, the station house is…
Rose Lees Hardy School: The Rose Lees Hardy School honors its namesake through a deep commitment to education.
Virginia-born Miss Rose Lees Hardy (1869-1932) was the Assistant Superintendent of DC Public Schools from 1925 until her death in 1932. As a specialist in primary education and piano, Miss Hardy left…
Mitchell Park Field House: Despite the playground’s equipment and paving having been replaced, the property remains one of the earliest extant city playgrounds and park buildings in DC.
Before 1930, some DC parks contained sheds to store equipment. The extant facilities from that era, however, include only buildings that were later repurposed for recreation use. But park…
Chevy Chase Playground and Field House: Despite the playground's equipment and paving having been replaced, the property remains one of the earliest extant city playgrounds and park buildings in DC, considered in its time a model for other Depression-era parks.
In 1921, a United Citizens Playground Committee completed a study and recommended that the District Commissioners adopt a system of equitable distribution of playgrounds around the city, urging the…
Theodore Roosevelt High School: Once a business technical school, Theodore Roosevelt High School now serves the Petworth community as a general public high school.
Roosevelt High School was founded in 1890 as Business High School, then DC’s only institution devoted to instruction in business. The co-educational and segregated school had an itinerant early…
MacFarland Junior High School: This middle school accommodated the rapid growth of Petworth.
The rapid development of Petworth in the three decades after 1900 meant that it needed new schools. Until the early 1920s, there was only a single elementary school in the neighborhood. Addressing…
Lafayette Elementary School: Lafayette Elementary School became a visual landmark of the Chevy Chase neighborhood, as well as a community center, from 1931 onwards.
Built in 1931, Lafayette Elementary School accommodated the rapid growth of the suburban community, Chevy Chase. One of several schools of the 1925 five-year plan, this major building campaign…