page_title: Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View
section_title: Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School
hierarchical_section_title: Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View / Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School
caption_attribution_description: English: The former Blanche Kelso Bruce Elementary School in Washington, D.C. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View is a bilingual elementary school in Washington, D.C.. Named after Blanche Bruce and James Monroe, it has been located in the historic Park View School in the city's Park View neighborhood since 2008. It is part of the District of Columbia Public Schools.
context_section_description: The Blanche K. Bruce School was an all-black school and community center during the Jim Crow era. In July 1898, the District of Columbia public school trustees ordered that a then new public school building on Marshall Street be named the Bruce School in his honor. The Bruce School building was designed by architect William M. Poindexter in Renaissance Revival style of red brick with stone and pressed metal trim, with two floors of four rooms each. In 1927, a Colonial Revival style eight-room annex was constructed, designed by architect Albert L. Harris.
  Marshall Street later became Kenyon Street. The Bruce School building became the charter Caesar Chavez Prep Middle School in 2009, named for the Mexican-American labor organizer Cesar Chavez. After the teachers unionized in 2017, the school was closed by the Chavez Schools in 2019.
  The building was designated a D.C. historic site on November 20, 2014 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2015.
caption: Blanche Kelso Bruce School building
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