Clifton School (Baltimore, Maryland)

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Clifton School
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Clifton School, August 2011
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Location2670 Kennedy Ave., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates 39°19′18″N76°35′46″W / 39.32167°N 76.59611°W / 39.32167; -76.59611
Area0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built1882 (1882)
ArchitectSmith & May
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 82001583 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1982

Clifton School is a historic elementary school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a late 19th-century school with an early 20th-century addition. The structure combines a gable-roofed, "T"-plan, brick county school built in 1882 with a Colonial Revival, flat-roofed, rectangular-plan, brick city school addition built in 1915. [2]

Clifton School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Barbara A. Hoff (January 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Clifton School" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved April 1, 2016.