3950 Chesapeake St, NW, Washington, D.C., District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 10, 2010. NRIS 10000243.
Part of Public School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS (NRIS 64500851).
2 contributing buildings.
Jackson-Reed High School (formerly known as Woodrow Wilson High School) is a public high school in Washington, D.C. It serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. The school sits in the Tenleytown neighborhood, at the intersection of Chesapeake Street and Nebraska Avenue NW. It primarily serves students in Washington's Ward 3, but nearly 30% of the student body lives outside the school's district boundaries.
Opened in 1935, the school was originally named for Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. It was renamed in 2022 for Edna Burke Jackson, the school's first African American teacher, and Vincent Reed, its first African American principal. The school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 and extensively renovated in 2010–2011.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117691771