Western High School, 1900
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Library of Congress, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
This file appears in: Western High School (Duke Ellington School of the Arts): This monumental hilltop school was one of DC's first buildings designed specifically for high school education.
Western High School (Duke Ellington School of the Arts): This monumental hilltop school was one of DC's first buildings designed specifically for high school education.
Western High School is among the city’s grandest Classical Revival school buildings, poised like a temple of learning on the heights above Georgetown. Built in between 1897 and 1898, it is one of the…