The school opened in 1894 to serve the growing number of students in West Town, as immigration and changes to education laws had led to overcrowding at other neighborhood schools.

W. August Fiedler, the chief architect of the Chicago Board of Education, designed the school.

His design, one of his first after becoming chief architect, combines the utilitarian form of standardized Chicago school designs of the 1870s with elements of the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles.

[2] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 26, 2017.

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