Frank P. Blair School is a two-story red brick schoolhouse designed by H. William Kirchner and August H. Kirchner. The building exhibits characteristics typical of late nineteenth-century institutional architecture in St. Louis, with segmental-arched window openings, stone sill courses, and a prominent cornice. The Kirchner brothers, working as a partnership, employed a straightforward rectangular plan suited to the educational program of the period. Decorative brickwork provides subtle articulation to the façade, while the building's massing and symmetrical organization reflect standard approaches to public school design of the 1880s.
The Frank P. Blair School was constructed in 1882 in the St. Louis Place neighborhood, designed by the architectural firm of H. William Kirchner and August H. Kirchner. The school was named for Frank Preston Blair Jr., a prominent Missouri politician who had served as a U.S. Senator and Representative, and who played a significant role in keeping Missouri in the Union during the Civil War. Blair had died in 1875, making this school one of several St. Louis institutions named in his honor during the years following his death. The Kirchner brothers received numerous commissions from the St. Louis Public Schools during the 1880s, and the Blair School was among their projects during this period of rapid school construction to serve the city's growing population. The building served students in the St. Louis Place neighborhood, an area that was developing during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The school building remains standing at 2707 Rauschenbach Avenue.
