Bunker Hill Elementary School Washington, DC, District of Columbia
National Register of Historic Places Data
Bunker Hill Elementary School has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000186
- Date Listed
- May 5, 2014
- Name
- Bunker Hill Elementary School
- Part of
- Public School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 1401 Michigan Ave., NE.
- City/Town
- Washington
- County
- District of Columbia
- State
- District Of Columbia
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- EDUCATION; ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Bunker Hill Elementary School was designed as an extensible school building and was constructed in phases between 1939 and 1953 to replace an earlier school building on the site. The new school building was needed as the surrounding Michigan Park community came to include a growing school-age population. Its construction was strongly urged by the Michigan Park Citizens1 Association and was built by the city's Office of Municipal Architect according to designs made by private practitioner Arthur B. Heaton. The school was executed in the Colonial Revival style, the then preferred style of the Municipal Architect's office (which supervised school construction) and by the Commission of Fine Arts. The idea of the extensible school building originated in the 1920s in the Municipal Architect's Office and was intended as a way to expand buildings in an organic manner as the need for larger buildings arose, which in the case of Bunker Hill, it did in the 1940s and early 1950s. Bunker Hill school remains an almost perfect example of an extensible school, described in the Multiple Property Document, Public School Buildings ofWashington, D.C.1862-1960.
