Bowditch School

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Bowditch School
Bowditch School is located in Massachusetts
Bowditch School
Bowditch School is located in the United States
Bowditch School
Location80-82 Green St., Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°18′42.2″N 71°6′34.2″W / 42.311722°N 71.109500°W / 42.311722; -71.109500
Arealess than one acre
Built1892
ArchitectHarrison H. Atwood
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.90001145[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 3, 1990

The Bowditch School is an historic school building at 80–82 Green Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story brick-and-granite Classical Revival building was designed by Harrison Henry Atwood, a prominent local architect, and was built in 1892. Its main facade has a projecting three-part pavilion, with square entry openings at the base, and round-arch windows at the top level, with a modillioned cornice. It is named for Nathaniel Bowditch, a noted early 19th-century astronomer and mathematician.[2]

By 1981 Boston Public Schools stopped using the facility, and the city government deemed it excess to the city's needs in July of that year.[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Bowditch School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  3. ^ "Bowditch School - National Register Materials". Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-24. The Bowditch School, declared a surplus property by the City of Boston in July of 1981, has been vacant since that time.