Bowditch School
- Architect
- Harrison Henry Atwood
- Year
- 1892
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Boston, MA
The Bowditch School is a three-story brick-and-granite Classical Revival school building at 80-82 Green Street in Jamaica Plain, designed by prominent local architect Harrison Henry Atwood and built in 1892. It is named for Nathaniel Bowditch, the noted early 19th-century astronomer and mathematician.
the building
The main facade. The facade is organized around a projecting three-part pavilion, with square entry openings at the base and round-arch windows above, finished with a modillioned cornice.
the style
Neoclassical (c. 1750–1850): Buildings modeled closely on Greek and Roman temples: grand columned porches, domes, and plain, symmetrical walls.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Harrison Henry Atwood was a prominent local architect; the Bowditch School, built in 1892, is among his documented works.
significance
Boston Public Schools stopped using the building by 1981, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
nearby
- District 13 Police Station
- First Church of Jamaica Plain
- Home for Aged Couples
- Abbotsford
- Adams-Nervine Asylum
- Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church