Bunker Hill Elementary School: This Colonial Revival style building is one of the District's best examples of an “extensible” school.

Established in 1883, Bunker Hill Elementary School's first building, a one-room brick structure, was used to educate white students before being reassigned to the city’s “colored” school division. A slightly larger building, erected in 1911, quickly proved inadequate for the growing Michigan Park community. After years of advocacy and a switch back to the segregated white division of the District’s schools in 1926, the current building was erected in stages through funding provided by the New Deal. 

"Extensible" schools, which were popular in the District from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, were designed to allow for incremental additions as needs arose. The first section of this school building was completed in 1940, and subsequent additions were made through the 1960s.

The Colonial Revival style building exemplifies the chosen style of school architecture then mandated by the DC Office of the Municipal Architect. Accomplished local architect Arthur B. Heaton worked with the office in executing the school's design.

Today, the Bunker Hill Elementary School building remains in operation as part of the Brookland Education Campus. 

DC Inventory: April 26, 2012

National Register: May 5, 2014