Alexander Crummell School

Alexander Crummell School
Location NE., Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°54′49″N 76°59′10″W / 38.91361°N 76.98611°W / 38.91361; -76.98611Coordinates: 38°54′49″N 76°59′10″W / 38.91361°N 76.98611°W / 38.91361; -76.98611
Built 1910
Architect Snowden Ashford
Architectural style Elizabethan Revival
NRHP Reference # 03000671[1]
Added to NRHP July 25, 2003[2]

The Alexander Crummell School is an Elizabethan Revival school building, located at 1900 Gallaudet Street and Kendall Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Ivy City neighborhood.

History

It was designed by Snowden Ashford in 1910, and named for educator Alexander Crummell.[3] It was built in 1911 by Allan T. Howlson, for $44,987.00.[4] It was dedicated on November 23, 1911. It was closed in 1977. A community group used the school for a preschool, library, job training and daycare center. During the 1990s, the property was used by an automobile auctioneer.

In 2012 the District government, under Mayor Grey, decided to relocate tour bus parking from Union Station to the Crummell School, paving the schoolyard, fencing-in the property, and adding pylons to protect the historic building from buses running into it.[5] Empower DC sued the DC government, and won injunctions preventing the city from actually using the historic schoolyard, dedicated to the teaching of African Americans, as a parking lot.[6] The city, blocked from using it as a tour bus parking lot, dropped the tour bus plan in 2016, instead putting an RFP out for private developers to bid on.[7]

It was listed by the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board, on May 23, 2002.[8] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 2003.[9]

In 2016,[10] it was part of a redevelopment plan.

See also

References

  1. ↑ LandmarkHunter.com | Alexander Crummell School
  2. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 29, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/03000671.pdf
  5. ↑ "Ivy City, tired of being a D.C. 'dumping ground,' takes on Gray over bus depot". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  6. ↑ "Activists oppose Union Station bus plan". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  7. ↑ "Crummell School Site/ Our RFP | dmped". dmped.dc.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  8. ↑ June 3, 2002 - News - Historic Crummell School gets D.C. landmark status
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  10. ↑ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/housing-complex/blog/20839915/long-vacant-historically-black-school-site-in-dc-gets-redevelopment-plan

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