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Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School

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in the United States. In July 1898, the District of Columbia public school trustees ordered that a then new public school building on Marshall Street be named the Bruce School in his honor. The Bruce School building was designed by architect
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In 1973, the Bruce School was closed and combined with the James Monroe Elementary School to become the nearby
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The Bruce School building became the charter Caesar Chavez Prep Middle School in 2009, named for the
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style of red brick with stone and pressed metal trim, with two floors of four rooms each. In 1927, a
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Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1899
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The building was designated a D.C. historic site on November 20, 2014, and added to the
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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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List of Houston Independent School District elementary schools
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eight-room annex was constructed, designed by architect
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was an all-black school and community center during the
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List of Houston Independent School District elementary schools
Bibb County School District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School is located in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
38°55′47″N 77°1′32″W / 38.92972°N 77.02556°W / 38.92972; -77.02556
William M. Poindexter
Albert L. Harris
Renaissance Revival
Colonial Revival
15000114
Jim Crow era
William M. Poindexter
Renaissance Revival
Colonial Revival style
Albert L. Harris
Bruce-Monroe Elementary School
Mexican-American
Cesar Chavez
National Register of Historic Places
"National Register Information System – (#15000114)"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1899


"Blanche Kelso Bruce School"
"Chavez-Bruce's new facility"
"D.C.'s Only Unionized Charter School Faces An Abrupt Closure"

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