Dearborn School
- Architect
- Edwin J. Lewis Jr.
- Year
- 1905
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Boston, MA
The Dearborn School at 25 Ambrose Street in Roxbury is a three-story brick Beaux-Arts school building designed by Roxbury native Edwin James Lewis Jr. and built in 1905. Named for Boston mayor Henry A. S. Dearborn, it is the only building to survive a roughly 1950 urban redevelopment of the surrounding area.
the style
Its Beaux-Arts facade gave a neighborhood school the formal, symmetrical dignity more often reserved for civic buildings.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Edwin J. Lewis Jr. was a Roxbury native who designed the school, completed in 1905.
significance
The Dearborn School served as an elementary or middle school until the 1980s, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, and has since been converted into housing.
nearby
- Goldsmith Block
- Shirley-Eustis House
- Joshua Bates School
- Malcolm X Ella Little-Collins House
- Alvah Kittredge House
- Cathedral of the Holy Cross