Built 1950 (1950) NRHP Reference # 04000110 Designated VLR December 3, 2003 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 26 February 2004 | Built by Wise Contracting Co. VLR # 000-9412 Opened 1950 Architectural style International Style | |
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Location 4100 Vacation Ln., Arlington, Virginia Similar Hume School, Fort Ethan Allen, Arlington Historical Museum, Arlington House - The Robert E, Arlington National Cemetery | ||
Stratford Junior High School is a historic junior high school building located in the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. It was designed in 1949, and built in 1950. An addition was built in 1995. It is a two- to three-story, concrete post-and-beam building clad primarily in buff brick and sandstone veneer. The building is in a high-style International Style architecture. It features a two-story, three bay projecting portico of exposed concrete on four tapered concrete columns. Other features include a flat parapet roof, decorative minimalism, and the strong horizontal qualities of the building emphasized by the use of finishing materials and banded windows. In 1959, Stratford Junior High School became the first public secondary school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to desegregate with the admission of four African American students. The school building houses H-B Woodlawn School.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.