Woodward School is a two-story red brick building designed by Rockwell Milligan for the St. Louis Public Schools. The structure follows the standardized school designs Milligan developed during his tenure with the district, featuring symmetrical massing and classical detailing typical of early 1920s institutional architecture. The facade presents evenly spaced window bays with limestone or cast stone trim, and a defined central entrance. The building's rectangular form and durable masonry construction reflect the practical, no-nonsense approach to school design that characterized St. Louis public school construction of this period.
Woodward School was built in 1921 in Carondelet, in south St. Louis, to a standardized design by Rockwell Milligan, architect to the St. Louis Public Schools. It stands at 725 Bellerive Boulevard and served as a neighborhood elementary school. The school is named for Calvin M. Woodward (1837–1914), the Washington University professor and engineering dean who founded the St. Louis Manual Training School in 1879 and became a national advocate for manual and vocational education — one of the local educators whose names the district gave to its schools.
