Girls’ High School (Boston, Massachusetts)
| Girls' High School | |
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West Newton Street Boston, Massachusetts United States | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | September 1852 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliation | Boston Public Schools |
Girls' High School was a high school that was located in Roxbury, Boston. It was founded in 1852 by a group including Dr. LeBaron Russell. It was initially located above a public library in the former Adams schoolhouse on Mason Street.[1]
In 1869, construction began for a purpose-built school building, located on Newton Street between Tremont and Shawmut Avenue. That building was designed for just under 1000 students, with 8 classrooms, 15 recitation rooms, 3 studios, chemical, physical, and botanical laboratories, and a hall, as well as facilities dedicated to the Girls' Latin School. This building was formally dedicated on April 19, 1871. By 1903, the high school's share of this space was described as insufficient in the Boston Globe.[1]
The school became coeducational in the latter half of the 20th century. By spring 1974, the school housed 500 female students and 200 male students. That spring, the Boston School Committee voted to change the school's name to Roxbury High School. This name was the most popular among petitioning students.[2]
Roxbury High closed in 1981, and the school building was later occupied by Boston Technical High School.[3]
Notable alumnae
- Harriet E. Caryl, teacher at Girls High School for 48 years (Class of 1855)[4]
- Pauline Hopkins, novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor[5]
- Sophie Chantal Hart, professor of English at Wellesley College (Class of 1887)[6]
- Marcella Boveri, biologist and first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[7]
- Jennie Loitman Barron, attorney and judge (Class of 1907)
- Jessie Gideon Garnett, first African-American woman dentist in Boston[8]
- Helen C. White, professor of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison (Class of 1913)
- Mildred Davenport, dancer and dance instructor[4]
- Melnea Cass, civil rights activist
- Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson, educator[9]
Heads of school
- Loring Lothrop, 1852-1856
- William Seavey, 1856-1868
- Ephraim Hunt, 1868-1872
- Samuel Eliot, 1872-1876
- Homer B. Sprague, 1876-1885
- John Tetlow, 1885-[10]
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- 1 2 "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Girls' High School". Boston Globe. January 12, 1903.
- ↑ Worsham, James (March 29, 1974). "School committee votes name change for Girls High". Boston Globe.
- ↑ "Student Records Locator" (PDF). City of Boston. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- 1 2 Shannon, Hope J. (2014). Legendary Locals of Boston's South End. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ↑ "Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)". http://www.blackpast.org/view/vignettes. Retrieved 27 September 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Mahoney, Mary (June 17, 1951). "Girls' High School Alumnae Plans Centennial for 1952". Boston Globe.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy, eds. (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. London: Routledge. pp. 336–337.
- ↑ "School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University: 2009 Archives" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ↑ Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. (1996). Notable Black American Women, Book 2. p. 152-153. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Woods, Lucy R. (1904). A History of the Girls' High School of Boston: 1852-1902. Riverside Press. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
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