{"nrhp_refnum":"79003027","name":"Hume School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1805 S. Arlington Ridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.85871232000005,"lon":-77.06769317399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half brick Queen Anne-style schoolhouse at 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road in Arlington, Virginia, built in 1891 and designed by Washington architect B. Stanley Simmons.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an imaginative Queen Anne-style building and a notable example of community pride in public school construction in the late 19th century. It is also valued as an example of decorative brickwork and an arched entrance that may reflect the influence of H.H. Richardson on its MIT-trained architect.","narrative":"Built in 1891 on South Arlington Ridge Road, Hume School is a story-and-a-half brick schoolhouse in the Queen Anne style, designed by Washington architect B. Stanley Simmons. A projecting four-stage entrance tower dominates the west front, with a large gauged-brick arch at the entry, basket-weave brickwork, and a belvedere topped by a cupola that holds the school bell. Gabled dormers with decorative medallions and pinnacles break the roofline. The school was named for Frank Hume, a Confederate veteran, legislator and county supervisor who donated adjoining land as a playground. It reflects late 19th-century school reform and local pride in building stylish public schools after county schools were first organized in 1870. Simmons, an early MIT graduate, appears to have drawn on Richardson's Romanesque Revival and Boston's Queen Anne fashion. The school closed in 1956 and passed to the Arlington Historical Society in 1960. It opened as a museum in 1963 and still serves that purpose.","period_of_significance":"1891","architect_builder":"B. Stanley Simmons","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Closed as a school in 1956, deeded in 1960 to the Arlington Historical Society, and now used as a museum; the interior has been partitioned into display areas.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.001243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6796/41679606/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003027.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003027/d1752ef372-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003027/d1752ef372-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington-historical-society.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Arlington-historical-society.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712593"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/hume-school-79003027/"}