Longfellow School (Boise, Idaho)
Appearance
Longfellow School | |
Location | 1511 N. 9th St., Boise, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°37′44″N 116°11′53″W / 43.62889°N 116.19806°W |
Area | 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) |
Built | 1906 |
Architect | Wayland & Fennell |
MPS | Boise Public Schools TR |
NRHP reference No. | 82000219[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 8, 1982 |
Longfellow School is a 2-story, brick and sandstone elementary school in Boise, Idaho, designed by Wayland & Fennell and completed in 1906. The Mission Revival building has been in operation as a school since opening, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2]
The building design featured separate entrances for boys and girls, 12 classrooms, and a basement apartment for the janitor. Longfellow School was the seventh schoolhouse constructed within the limits of Boise's Independent School District.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Longfellow School". National Park Service. Retrieved January 30, 2019. With accompanying pictures
- ^ "Splendid School Building Going Up". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. October 29, 1905. p. 13.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Longfellow School at Wikimedia Commons
- Longfellow Elementary School website
Further reading
[edit]- J. Howard Moon, A Centennial History of Schools of the State of Idaho (State School Boards Association, 1990), pp 1–12