Gompers School

This article is about the school in Baltimore. For other schools named Gompers, see Gompers School (disambiguation).

Gompers School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Gompers School, September 2012
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Location	1701 East North Ave., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates	39°18′43″N 76°35′41″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1905 (1905)
Architect	Simonson & Pietsch; Thomas, D.W. & G.H.
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	85001272[1]
Added to NRHP	June 20, 1985

Gompers School, also known as Eastern High School and Samuel Gompers General Vocational School, is a historic high school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was designed and built during a period from 1904 to 1906 as a public high school and remained as an educational facility until its closing in 1981. It is a flat-roofed building on four floor levels, roughly square in plan. The interior layout is characterized by a series of classrooms ringing an open court to allow maximum ventilation and light.^[2]

Gompers School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Harry A. Prushansky (December 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Gompers School" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.

External links

• Gompers School, Baltimore City, including photo from 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust