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Claude A. Swanson Junior High School

About

Date: Congenital 1939

Historic Designation:

Local Historic Commune: May 17, 2008
Contributing to the Westover National Register Historic District

Current Apply of Property:Thispublic centre school has been in continuous operation since its construction.

Swanson Heart Schoolhouse opened in Jan 1940 and is the oldest surviving middle school in Arlington County. The edifice is a grand example of the Colonial Revival (Georgian Classical Revival) style, which was prominent during that time period.

The schoolhouse was built with partial funding from a New Deal-era program initiated by the Roosevelt administration in response to the economic depression of the 1930s. Information technology opened with 15 faculty members and 372 students, who came from as far every bit Concatenation Bridge to the north, Arlington Boulevard to the s, Rosslyn to the e and East Falls Church to the west. Lena Wolfe, the school'due south first main, served the school for 27 years before retiring.

Swanson Middle School is historically pregnant for the role information technology played to support the growth and development of west-central Arlington in the 1930s and 1940s, including the communities of Westover, Highland Park and Overlee Knolls.

Architectural Features

The original schoolhouse consisted of a two½-story main block with prominent two-story perpendicular wings flanking each side. It contained 12 classrooms, a library, an auditorium, a small cafeteria, an office and a gymnasium.

Over fourth dimension, additions were fabricated to the original plan, adding classrooms, office space and enclosing the original central courtyard. In 1977, a fire reportedly started past a pupil as a prank, destroyed nearly of the schoolhouse's roof and one of the edifice'south nearly prominent features, its cupola. The entire building was renovated in 1994, and an addition was built in 2004.

The original main block of the Claude A. Swanson Junior High School rests upon a cinder block foundation with a brick h2o table. The building is constructed of steel joists with cinder cake walls faced in six-form Flemish-bond brick. The side gable roof is clad in slate shingles and adorned with a center gable and 4 matching double-end brick chimneys. A modillion cornice encircles the building. The first-floor windows are ornamented with brick jack-arched lintels and keystones. The archway gable features a one-story, one-bay portico with fluted Tuscan columns with a large Palladian window above.

Meaning People

Claude Augustus Swanson (1862-1939)

Claude Augustus Swanson was a prominent Virginia politician, who served as a member of Congress (1893-1906); governor of Virginia (1906-1910); U.Southward. senator (1910-1933); and Secretary of the Navy nether President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1939). He was born in Swansonville and died on July 7, 1939, virtually Criglersville.

Raymond V. Long(Architect)

Raymond Long was a Richmond architect who served as the state supervisor of trade and industrial didactics in 1924. Through the late-1930s, he worked for the Country Board of Education and designed several public school buildings for the Democracy of Virginia. He designed both Swanson Center Schoolhouse and Arlington'southward Walter Reed Uncomplicated School.