Gales School, Present Day

ID: 3403 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Date: January 2017

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The Gales School building is located at 65 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. The building was constructed in 1881 and named after the ninth mayor of Washington, Joseph Gales, Jr. It was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on May 23, 2002.

Joseph Gales School: The twelve-room schoolhouse is one of few buildings to survive from Swampoodle, the old largely Irish and Italian working-class neighborhood around the Government Printing Office.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Named after Washington, DC’s 8th mayor and owner of the National Intelligencer newspaper, the Joseph Gales School has served many purposes throughout its lifetime. Originally built in 1881, the…