Crow School

A long red brick schoolhouse of two tall stories raised on a rough-cut stone basement, laid out as a symmetrical front with a projecting central pavilion. The pavilion rises into a steep gable pierced by a small arched window, above a round-arched entrance framed by a smaller gabled hood and reached by a flight of steps. Tall windows with arched heads run in pairs and threes across both floors, and bands of patterned brick run beneath the deep cornices of the hipped roofs. Lower wings step back at each end.

Wayman Crow School was completed in 1882 at 3325 Bell Avenue. Its design is attributed to H. William Kirchner, the Board of Education's architect in 1881–1882. It kept the Crow name into the early 1940s. By January 1944 the school had been renamed for George Washington Carver, and it graduated classes as Carver School through the 1940s and into the 1950s. The 1882 building was later demolished and replaced by the present Carver Elementary on the same site.