Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-27
Church, and a strenuous advocate Of the
education Of his race.

mayOTdlty III 1910 anu -.
Gen. U. 8. Grant 8 name was placed on
the school building OF g between 2lst and
22d streets northwestern 1882.
The name of Amid6n on the building at
the corner of 9th and F streets southwest
erected in 1852, recalls valued teacher,
who, as Miss Margaret A. Milburn and
Mrs. Amidon, was for many years a de-
voted teacher Of the fourth district schools.
erected in 1882 on Sd between X and l.
streets northwest, for colored youth. Is n
reminder that Benjamin Banaker, a col
ored surveyor. born near Ellcott City, Md,
in the last century. was an assistant of
Ellicott in laying out and plating the city
of Washington
The name of Washington is specifically
applied to the High School building on 9
between 9th and 7th streets northwest,
erected in 1883.
Major w j. Twining. the first Engineer
Commissioner of the District of Columbia
detailed from the engineer corps of the
army, who served from 1878 to his death,
in 1889, was honored the following year by
the building bearing his name on 30 De-
tween n and o streets northwest.
Friends of Washington.
The first mayor Of Washington, Mr.. Rob-
ert Brent who served from 1901 to 1911,
gave the name to the building at the cor
ner of Sd and D streets southeast, erected
in 1883.
In 1888 was the name of Prof. S. F. B.
Morse. the inventor of the magnetic tele-
graph attached to the building at 9th and
r streets northwest, just then completed
The welI-known colored chef and leading
man of his race, James Wermley. was hon
ored in 1884 in placing his name on the
building for colored schools erected on
Prospect avenue between 33d and 34th
streets. West Washington.
At 10th and H streets northwest the
Webster building erected in 1884. perpet-
yates the name of the distinguished senator
from Massachusetts, whose interest In the
educational affairs Of the District made
him friend.
The building on North Capitol street be-
tween X and L streets northwest erected
in 1884, was named in honor OF Senator II.
W. Blair of New Hampshire. as an express
sion of gratitude for his services in the
cause of popular education.
The first president Of the board of Dis
trict Commissioners under the temporary
government GS74 to 1879. VIM. DenniSon,
is remembered by the building on street
between 18th and 18th streets northwest,
erected in 1884.
In 1885 the name of Addison was given
the temple of education on street be-
tween 32d and 33d streets, West Washing
ton after Henry Addison, for many years
mayor of Georgetown.
Mayor John W. Maury Qs52-53) gives the
designation of the building on B street be-
tween 18th and 18th streets northeast,
erected in 1886.
The name of Garfield on the school build
ing in that village. erected in 1887, reminds
Cen Roger c.. Weightman, mayor of
Washington from 1s24-5-6 and for many
years librarian of the patent office, is COM
plimented by the name OF the building
erected in 1856 at 23d and M streets norti-
west.
Mayor Thos. Carberry. 1929. gave the
name of the building on 9Th street between
d and f streets northeast erected in 1881,
and sto that on North Capitol street be-
tween X and L streets northwest the name
of James H. Blake, mayor 1SE5-14-l6 was
given. Samuel n. Smalwood another early
mayor-1S19-21-is honored by the building
on street between Sd and AZ streets SOUTH
west bearing his name.
The structure on 1874 street between
and D streets southwest, erected in 1887,
reminds us that Mr. w. A. Bradley was
mayor of Washington In 1870.
The Towers, at the corner of 9Th and
streets southeast, erected IN 1881, recalls
another mayor, John I. Towers. who filed
the chair in 1861. and. that for cotored
schools erected the same year. on M street
between 10th and 18th streets northwest.
was named for DR.. w. b. Magruder may
or in 1861
The colored school building erected In
1887 on G street between Sd and 4th streets
southeast was named for a champion in
the cause of anti-slavery, Joshua r. Gid
dingS of OHIO.
The Phelps building on Vermont avenue
between 7 and U streets northwest, is so
named in honor of Capt 8. L. Phelps,
Commissioner of the District from 1915 to
1879.
After Presidents.
President John Adams rs honored in the
building on r between 18th street and New
Hampshire avenue northwest, erected in
1883.
TIE name of President Arthur applies to
the structure on Arthur place between
New jersey avenue. 1st, b and Z streets
nOrthwcst), erected 1889.
The name of President Madison is at
tached to the building at 10Th and G
streets northeast, erected 1889.
The building Steuben street between
Brightwood and Sherman avenues, erected
1889, honors President Monroe. General
Jackson is recalled by the structure on U
between goth and 31st streets, West Wash
ngton, erected in 1889 and President Van
Buren, by that erected the same year in
the village of Anacostia.
More Local Names.
The colored school building erected in
1882 at LIST and L streets northwest bears
the name of Jones, in honor of Alfred
Jones, one of the trustees for colored
schools, long a resident of Georgetown.
The mayor of Washington 1s50-1S51,
Walter Lenox, is recalled in the building
bearing his name on 9th and Virginia ave-
nue. southeast, erected in 1889.
A coored school building on Howard ave-
nue.. Hillsdale, erected ften years ago, Is
called Birney after J, @. Birney. who
twice was the liberty or Tree SOIL Candidate
for the presidency.
w. W. Corcoran, the public spirited citi-
zen of Washington, is kept in remem-
brance by the building ON 18th between M
and Olive Streets West Washington, erect
ed in 1889.
At I'D and E streets the name of the
building erected in 1883 recalls the ser
vices of that pioneer teacher of colored
youth Mis-. Martha NJ. Briggs, who was
the first teacher of the colored Normal
School.
The efficient werk of Enoch Ambush.
colored teacher. who for a third of a GEN.
fury taught school for his race, is rec
ognized by giving his name to the building
on L between 9th and It'll streets south
west.
In naming the colored school building
opened in 1889, on 1st between B and c
streets southwest the He'll, the pioneer in
the education of colored chaldren in the
District is recognized. Soon after the cree
ton of the two school houses for white
children George Bell. Nicholas Franklin
and Moses Liverpool, three colored men
born slaves. and but recently freed, in 1907
built a school house for colored children
near the site of Providence Hospital and
opened school, employing a white man, a
Mr. Lowe.
The Garrison building. erected in 1889 on
18th between r and S streets northwest, is
so called for VIM Lloyd Garrison the we'll
known anti-siavery worker.
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