4100 W. Grace St., Richmond (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Richmond.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 23, 1993. NRIS 93001441.
Part of Public Schools of Richmond MPS (NRIS 64500685).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Thomas Jefferson High School is a historic high school in Richmond, Virginia. It is part of the Richmond Public Schools. The Art Deco building, constructed in 1929 and opened in 1930, has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by architect Charles M. Robinson. In his book, The Virginia Landmarks Register, Calder Loth refers to the school as Robinson's "masterpiece" and notes that the structure is "a celebration of education, a building redolent of civic pride."
James E. Ryan's book Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America discusses school segregation by comparing TJHS to nearby Freeman High School, which is in suburban Henrico County.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678916