Military Road School

	Military Road School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	Public School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS
NRHP reference No.	03000674
Added to NRHP	July 25, 2003

The Military Road School is an historic public school building in the

Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

in 2003.

Since 2003, it has been occupied by the Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School.

History

The Military Road School was established in 1864 to educate free people of color.^[2] The site was formerly occupied by the barracks of Fort Stevens and was located on what was then Military Road, which connected Washington's Civil War forts. Many freedmen and freedwomen settled near forts for protection and employment. It was one of the first schools in Washington to open after Congress authorized the education of African Americans.^[2] The students who attended school came from the neighborhood, traveled from other parts of upper Northwest Washington, as well as from Montgomery County, Maryland. The school remained open until 1954 when the Brown v. Board of Education decision desegregated public schools in the United States.^[2]

Architecture

The front part of the present school building was one of the first to be designed by the office of the Municipal Architect, which had been established in 1909, and to be reviewed by the Commission of Fine Arts, which had been established in 1910.^[3] The two and a half story building was designed by Snowden Ashford. A large contemporary addition was completed behind the building in 2009.

The building is faced with red brick and is accented by

eaves, and is topped by an octagonal shaped cupola

.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Military Road School, African American Heritage Trail". Cultural Tourism DC. Archived from the original on 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
^ "Military Road School". DC Preservation. Archived from the original on 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[culturaltourism-2] "Military Road School, African American Heritage Trail". Cultural Tourism DC. Archived from the original on 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

[dcpreservation-3] "Military Road School". DC Preservation. Archived from the original on 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

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