Quadrangular in plan, it is a two-story building designed by the Orleans Parish School Board's in-house architect E. A. Christy.

It is one of only two Craftsman style frame schools surviving in New Orleans.

[2] It was named for Adolph Meyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War who advocated for the construction of the Algiers Naval Station, across the street, and who was a long-time U.S.

Naval Station Algiers Historic District, which was listed on the National Register in 2013.

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