Longfellow School
Law, Law and Potter, Architects
The Longfellow School served the ethnically diverse Greenbush neighborhood as a community anchor between 1918 and 1980. Designed by the prominent Madison firm of Law, Law and Potter, the school is an excellent example of the Elizabethan Revival, a brick subtype of the Tudor Revival style. The school is also significant as an embodiment of Progressive educational ideals, including a curriculum of manual training and the improvement of health and nutrition. The school design incorporated new features such as a gymnasium, lunchroom, nurse's office, an auditorium and library.
Designated July 26, 1993
Marker is at the intersection of Mound Street and South Brooks Street, on the right when traveling east on Mound Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
