Stratford Junior High School

Stratford Junior High School
Location 4100 Vacation Ln., Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates 38°54′0″N 77°6′44″W / 38.90000°N 77.11222°W / 38.90000; -77.11222Coordinates: 38°54′0″N 77°6′44″W / 38.90000°N 77.11222°W / 38.90000; -77.11222
Area 8.8 acres (3.6 ha)
Built 1950 (1950)
Built by Wise Contracting Co.
Architect Burket, Rhees Evans Sr.
Architectural style International Style
NRHP Reference # 04000110[1]
VLR # 000-9412
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 26, 2004
Designated VLR December 3, 2003[2]

Stratford Junior High School is a historic junior high school building located in the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. It was designed in 1949, and built in 1950. An addition was built in 1995. It is a two- to three-story, concrete post-and-beam building clad primarily in buff brick and sandstone veneer. The building is in a high-style International Style architecture. It features a two-story, three bay projecting portico of exposed concrete on four tapered concrete columns. Other features include a flat parapet roof, decorative minimalism, and the strong horizontal qualities of the building emphasized by the use of finishing materials and banded windows. In 1959, Stratford Junior High School became the first public secondary school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to desegregate with the admission of four African American students. The school building houses H-B Woodlawn School.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Carrie E. Albee and Laura V. Trieschmann (April 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Stratford Junior High School" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos


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