Theodore Roosevelt High School, 13th St. in upper NW, Washington, D.C.

ID: 4642 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress ~ Date: January 1, 2010

This file appears in: Theodore Roosevelt High School: Once a business technical school, Theodore Roosevelt High School now serves the Petworth community as a general public high school.

Theodore Roosevelt High School, 13th St. in upper NW, Washington, D.C., 2010. Carol M. Highsmith Collection, Library of Congress LC-DIG-highsm- 09997

This file appears in: Theodore Roosevelt High School: Once a business technical school, Theodore Roosevelt High School now serves the Petworth community as a general public high school.

Theodore Roosevelt High School: Once a business technical school, Theodore Roosevelt High School now serves the Petworth community as a general public high school.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Roosevelt High School was founded in 1890 as Business High School, then DC’s only institution devoted to instruction in business. The co-educational and segregated school had an itinerant early…