Armstrong Manual Training School
- Architect
- Waddy Butler Wood
- Year
- 1902
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
The Armstrong Manual Training School is a 1902 Renaissance Revival building designed by Waddy Butler Wood, one of Washington's most prolific architects. It served as an early vocational school for African American students, and its facade is still visible from the street today.
the style
The school was built in the Renaissance Revival idiom, part of Wood's broad body of civic and institutional work around the capital.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Waddy Butler Wood was a notable Washington, D.C. architect whose civic commissions shaped the city's early twentieth-century streetscape.
significance
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is recognized for its retellable history as an early African American vocational training school.
nearby
- Slater, John Fox, School
- Augusta & Louisa Apartment Buildings
- O Street Market
- Church of the Advent
- Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse
- The Lafayette