Franklin School, front facade, 1995

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This file appears in: Benjamin Franklin School (and Interiors): This award-winning public school building is an important landmark of DC's public school system.

Credit: Tanya Beauchamp

This file appears in: Benjamin Franklin School (and Interiors): This award-winning public school building is an important landmark of DC's public school system.

Benjamin Franklin School (and Interiors): This award-winning public school building is an important landmark of DC's public school system.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Built between 1865 and 1869, the Benjamin Franklin School was the flagship of a group of seven modern urban public school buildings constructed between 1862 and 1875 to house, for the first time, a…