{"nrhp_refnum":"04000857","name":"Whaley, Matthew, School","other_names":["VDHR File # 137-0302"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 Scotland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamsburg (Independent City)","county":"Williamsburg","state":"VA","lat":37.276126920000024,"lon":-76.70402666699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A public school building at 301 Scotland Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, built between 1929 and 1930 and designed by Richmond architect Charles M. Robinson in the Georgian Revival style, at the north end of Nassau Street beside the rebuilt Governor's Palace.","why_significant":"Listed under Criterion C for architecture, the school reflects Robinson's Georgian Revival work, revised through collaboration with the Williamsburg Restoration architects Perry, Shaw & Hepburn. It also served as a training school for the College of William and Mary and a public K-12 school, placing it at the forefront of progressive education in Virginia from 1930 to 1949.","narrative":"Matthew Whaley School is a brick Georgian Revival school at 301 Scotland Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, built in 1929-30 to a design by Richmond architect Charles M. Robinson. It sits on a rise at the north end of Nassau Street beside the rebuilt Governor's Palace. The building is U-shaped, with a gymnasium and auditorium block filling the rear courtyard, Flemish bond brickwork with glazed headers, nine-over-nine windows, a slate roof and two cupolas. Its design was shaped by negotiation between Robinson and the Restoration architects Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, who had a classical portico removed in favor of an arcaded central pavilion. The school replaced earlier schools displaced by the Palace reconstruction. It served as a training school for the College of William and Mary and as a public school for all grades, with conference rooms for supervising student teachers. It became a grammar school in 1955 and remains in use, with its interiors well preserved after a 1997 renovation.","period_of_significance":"1926-54","architect_builder":"Charles M. Robinson, architect; Nuckols Construction Company, builders","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival: Georgian Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a school, presently serving kindergarten through fifth grade; renovated in 1997 with its exterior and interior largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.968818-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/6841/41684128/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000857.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000857/333491dc83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000857/333491dc83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SKM2000","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Whaley_School,_Williamsburg.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">SKM2000</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Whaley_School,_Williamsburg.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684128","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whaley_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6791405"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/williamsburg/whaley-matthew-school-04000857/"}