Maury School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in March 2007.

[1][3] The school is located on in an area of Fredericksburg bounded by George, Kenmore, William and Barton streets.

The Dog Mart began with a 1698 agreement between the village that was to become Fredericksburg and the Manahoac Indian tribe.

[4][6] The school is named for Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), a Spotsylvania County, Virginia native who was known as the "Pathfinder of the Seas".

Maury was involved in the founding of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and taught at the Virginia Military Institute.

An identical building was built in 1937 to house elementary school students and is connected by a covered walkway.

Historian and writer Jack D. Warren Jr. called Maury School "the best example of institutional Colonial Revival architecture in Fredericksburg".