Public School No. 111 | |
Location: | N. Carrollton Ave. and Riggs Ave., Baltimore, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 39.3011°N -76.6375°W |
Architecture: | Romanesque |
Added: | September 25, 1979 |
Refnum: | 79003219 |
Public School No. 111, also known as Francis Ellen Harper School, is a historic elementary school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a Romanesque brick structure that features an ornately detailed brick front façade. It was built in 1889 as Colored School #9 and is one of the few surviving schools built for black children and staffed by black teachers. The school is named after Francis Ellen Harper (1825-1911), a Baltimore-born African American poet.[1]
Public School No. 111 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.