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William Syphax School, now known as Syphax Village, is a historic former school building in the Southwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. that now houses condominiums. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . History. The William Syphax School historically served African American students.
The William Syphax School is one of several elegant public school buildings designed by the local firm of Marsh and Peter in the District of Columbia between 1900 and 1910. It is located on the eastern edge of the Southwest Quadrant, an area traditionally inhabited by African Americans.
William Syphax School - This historically black elementary school commemorates William Syphax (1825-1891), the first president of the Board of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and Georgetown. | DC Historic Sites.
- The Sumner School
- Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School
- William Syphax School
- Birney School
- Alexander Crummell School
- Military Road School
- Grimke School
- Bolling V Sharpe
The Sumner School, at 1201 17th St. NW, was built in 1872 and named after abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner. Sumner tried, and failed, to ban segregated schools and other segregated public facilities in the District. The building served as a school and the headquarters of the Superintendent for Colored Public High Schools. The building was design...
Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School, at 1050 21st Street, N.W., was built in 1868 as a school for both recently freed African-Americans and African-Americans who had been free for generations. It was considered the first school for African-Americans that had facilities that were comparable to those available in white schools. It was named after Penn...
The William Syphax School, at 1360 Half St. SW, was built in 1904. William Syphax was the first head of the Colored Schools of Washington, and he fought for a unified school system. During his term, he supervised the building of the Charles Sumner School and the Thaddeus Stevens School. The building was used as a school up until 1994. In 2005, it w...
The school, at 2427 MLK Jr Avenue, was built in 1901 as the James G. Birney Elementary School (the adjacent original building for the school was built in 1889 and torn down in 1914). It was the first public school for African-Americans in the Hillsdale area, and was named for James Birney, a white abolitionist from Kentucky. The school was closed i...
The Crummell School was built in 1911. It was named after Alexander Crummell, an African-American scholar, educator, and ordained Episcopal minister in the late 1800’s. The building was designed by Snowdon Ashford, the city’s municipal architect. It closed in 1977, and for a period served as a bus parking lot. The community wants it renovated as pu...
The Military Road School was established in 1864 to educate freed African-American children. It was constructed near the Fort Stevens barracks, which was considered one of the safer areas for freed African-Americans to live. The original building was torn down and replaced in 1912 by a building designed by D.C.’s municipal architect, Snowden Ashfor...
The Grimke School, at 1923 Vermont Avenue NW, was built in 1887 as the Phelps Colored Vocational School. It was renamed the Grimke School in 1934 after Archibald Grimke, who had been born into slavery in 1849. He went on to graduate from Harvard Law School and become an activist and diplomat, and the head of the NAACP for D.C. After many years of c...
While Brown v Board of Education is the school desegregation case everyone is familiar with, a similar case started in D.C. a year earlier and was eventually combined into the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown. In 1950 Gardner Bishop, a local activist, led a few African American students to view the new whites-only John Phillip Sousa High School, and...
The William Syphax School, at 1360 Half St. SW, is a two-story brick school in the Colonial Revival style. It was built in 1904 and used as a school up until 1994. In 2005, it was acquired by the non-profit developer Manna, and turned into affordable condo units as Syphax Village.
time friend, William H.A. Wormley, formerly presented the school with a picture of William Syphax, which was accepted on behalf of the school by Dr. W. S. Montgomery who at that time was the Superintendent of Schools.12 9 Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865-1895 (Norfolk: Luther P. Jackson, 1946) p. 41.
17 de jul. de 2019 · William Syphax Public School, built in 1902 to serve African American children under the city's then-segregated school system, honored the first president of the Board of Trustees of the DC Colored Schools.
