{"nrhp_refnum":"02001045","name":"Kirkwood School","other_names":["Kirkwood Elementary School"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"138 Kirkwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.75763230800004,"lon":-84.32212207499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Social History","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2.9-acre former school campus at 138 Kirkwood Road in the Kirkwood neighborhood of east Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia, with buildings from 1906, 1922 (additions 1924 and 1928), 1950 and 1964.","why_significant":"The campus is significant for architecture as an example of Atlanta school design from the early 20th century through the post-World War II period, by several prominent Atlanta architects. It is significant for education as a neighborhood-built and later city-run school. It is also significant for social history and Black ethnic heritage because it reflects the desegregation of the school in 1965 and the neighborhood's shift to a predominantly African American population by 1967.","narrative":"Kirkwood School is a former school campus of about 2.9 acres in the center of the Kirkwood neighborhood in east Atlanta. It grew over six decades. A frame Italianate school opened in 1906 and was later covered in brick veneer. A two-story Colonial Revival main building followed in 1922, with an auditorium added around 1924 and an eight-classroom wing in 1928. A ranch-house-style cafeteria was added in 1950 and a modern library with a butterfly roof in 1964. Several well-known Atlanta architects designed the buildings, which together show changing ideas in school design and education. The school also reflects community effort, since Kirkwood residents funded schools while the town was independent, before it was annexed to Atlanta in 1922. Its desegregation in 1965, followed by the neighborhood's change to a predominantly African American population by 1967, adds to its significance. In the late 1990s the buildings were rehabilitated as loft apartments, keeping many historic features and public spaces.","period_of_significance":"1906-1967","architect_builder":"Bruce, Everett, and Hayes (architect); John F. Downing (architect); G. Lloyd Preacher (architect); J. W. Kreis (architect); Cunningham and Forehand (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Modern Movement","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in the late 1990s as twenty-five loft apartments; the rehabilitation was certified in 1999 and the property retains a high level of historic integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.152436-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001045.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001045/89244c5b4b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001045/89244c5b4b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Donutboy102","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkwood_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Donutboy102</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkwood_School.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"09000749","name":"Kirkwood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/kirkwood-historic-district-09000749/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207785","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85774578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/kirkwood-school-02001045/"}