Joshua Bates School
- Year
- 1884
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
Designed by Arthur H. Vinal and built in 1884 at 731 Harrison Avenue, the Joshua Bates School is a Romanesque Revival brick schoolhouse named for the financier and Boston Public Library benefactor Joshua Bates. Court-ordered desegregation closed the school in 1975, and it was rehabilitated as artists' studios in 2003.
the building
The old sea wall. The original sea wall built for the South End is still visible along the Harrison Avenue side of the schoolyard, a trace of the neighborhood's origins as filled land.
the style
The 2+1/2-story brick building is Romanesque Revival in style.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. American poet James Hercules Sutton attended the school from 1947 to 1951.
nearby
- Cathedral of the Holy Cross
- Cyclorama Building
- Union Church
- Dearborn School
- Youth's Companion Building
- Goldsmith Block