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and various vocations, and also gave religious instruction. It was the first school to offer all of these services in a single facility. It was also distinguished in having a stronger academic component than other period schools for African Americans, which generally focused on vocational training.
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The school expanded its offerings in the 1920s, providing a wider array of vocational skills training. It closed briefly in 1953, but resumed operation. Nannie Helen Burroughs ran the school until her death in 1961, and in 1964 it was renamed in her honor. Today, her legacy is continued by The
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The former Nannie Helen Burroughs School property consists of 6 acres (2.4 ha) at the southeast corner of 50th Street NE and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE. There are four buildings on the hilly campus, of which the 1928 Trades Hall is the furthest east.
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In 1908 Nannie Helen Burroughs established the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, one of the nation's first vocational training school for African-American girls and women. The school formally opened on October 19, 1909.
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Monroe School, Inc., which operates in a 1971 school building on the campus. The Trade School building, which was the school's main building for many years, now houses the offices of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
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for African-American females, who did not otherwise have many educational opportunities available to them. The 1928 Trades Hall building, the oldest building on the campus, was declared a
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as The National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc. and was the first school in the nation to provide
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and funded and managed entirely by African-Americans. The school attracted students from nearly every
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as well as the Monroe School, a private junior-senior high school that continues Burroughs' legacy.
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The largest building in the group is a school building built in 1971 that now houses the
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separates the floors. The building was constructed in 1927-28, and
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Trades Hall of National Training School for Women and Girls
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Trades Hall of National Training School for Women and Girls
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in 1991. The property now houses the headquarters of the
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
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Trades Hall of National Training School for Women and Girls
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Nannie Helen Burroughs School is located in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
38°53′50″N 76°55′44″W / 38.8972°N 76.9290°W / 38.8972; -76.9290
Thomas M. Medford
91002049
elementary school
Washington, D.C.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
vocational training
National Historic Landmark
Progressive National Baptist Convention

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Monroe School
string course
soldier bricks
Mary McLeod Bethune

domestic arts
National Baptist Convention
state
Puerto Rico
Haiti
South America
Africa

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