Nathaniel Parker Gage School is an historic structure located in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 2008. The building now houses condominiums.

History

The Gage School was designed by Lemuel W. Norris in the high Colonial Revival

Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

 style. It was built from 1904 to 1905. Snowden Ashford designed a complimentary addition, which was built three years later. Students who came to this school lived in the LeDroit Park, Bloomingdale and the Eckington neighborhoods. It also served as community meeting and recreation facility.