West Addition, Smothers Elementary School

ID: 5389 ~ Source: EHT Traceries, Inc. ~ Creator: Benjamin Walker ~ Date: 16 December 2022

This file appears in: Smothers Elementary School: This school, named for Henry Smothers, has welcomed students since the 1920s.

Photograph: the west addition to the school added classroom space for the school while also modernizing its facilities. The exterior generally matches the rest of the building, but added extra architectural details.

This file appears in: Smothers Elementary School: This school, named for Henry Smothers, has welcomed students since the 1920s.

Smothers Elementary School: This school, named for Henry Smothers, has welcomed students since the 1920s.

By The DC Historic Sites team

As DC’s urban landscape grew to accommodate its growing population, so did its young population of school-aged children. While schoolhouses existed throughout the city for these children, they were…