Webster School

ID: 5728 ~ Source: DC Public Library, Webster School,Photograph/Print. Dig DC. January 1, 1884, https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A101539 ~ Creator: DC Public Library ~ Date: 1884

This file appears in: Daniel Webster School: This 12-room schoolhouse typifies the city’s post-Civil War public schools and is one of the last such buildings downtown.

This image shows the front and corner of the Daniel Webster School in 1884, taken from 10th and 8th Streets, NW.

This file appears in: Daniel Webster School: This 12-room schoolhouse typifies the city’s post-Civil War public schools and is one of the last such buildings downtown.

Daniel Webster School: This 12-room schoolhouse typifies the city’s post-Civil War public schools and is one of the last such buildings downtown.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Typical of DC's post-Civil War red brick schoolhouses, the Daniel Webster School shows how mass-production and technology influenced the design of civic buildings in an era of great public works. It…