Gompers School

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]

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 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