Girls' High School (Boston, Massachusetts)

Girls' High School
Girls' High School
Address
	West Newton Street; Boston, Massachusetts; United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	September 1852
Closed	1981
Campus	Urban
Affiliation	Boston Public Schools

Girls' High School was a high school that was located in Roxbury, Boston. It was founded in 1852 by a group including Dr. LeBaron Russell. It was initially located above a public library in the former Adams schoolhouse on Mason Street.[1]

External view of the high school in the 1920s

In 1869, construction began for a purpose-built school building, located on Newton Street between Tremont and Shawmut Avenue. That building was designed for just under 1000 students, with 8 classrooms, 15 recitation rooms, 3 studios, chemical, physical, and botanical laboratories, and a hall, as well as facilities dedicated to the Girls' Latin School. This building was formally dedicated on April 19, 1871. By 1903, the high school's share of this space was described as insufficient in the Boston Globe.[1]

The school became coeducational in the latter half of the 20th century. By spring 1974, the school housed 500 female students and 200 male students. That spring, the Boston School Committee voted to change the school's name to Roxbury High School. This name was the most popular among petitioning students.[2]

Roxbury High closed in 1981

Notable alumnae

Jennie Loitman Barron, attorney and judge (Class of 1907)
Marcella Boveri, biologist and first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[3]
Harriet E. Caryl, teacher at Girls High School for 48 years (Class of 1855)[4]
Melnea Cass, civil rights activist
Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson, educator[5]
Mildred Davenport, dancer and dance instructor[4]
Margaret Foley, labor activist, suffragist, and social worker
Jessie G. Garnett, first African-American woman dentist in Boston[6]
Sophie Chantal Hart, professor of English at Wellesley College (Class of 1887)[7]
Pauline Hopkins, novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor[8]
Lillian A. Lewis, journalist[9]
Ruth Roman, American actress
Helen C. White, professor of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison (Class of 1913)

Heads of school

Loring Lothrop, 1852-1856
William Seavey, 1856-1868
Ephraim Hunt, 1868-1872
Samuel Eliot, 1872-1876
Homer Sprague, 1876-1885
John Tetlow, 1885-[10]

References

"Fiftieth Anniversary of the Girls' High School". Boston Globe. January 12, 1903.
Worsham, James (March 29, 1974). "School committee votes name change for Girls High". Boston Globe.
Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy, eds. (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. London: Routledge. pp. 336–337.
Shannon, Hope J. (2014). Legendary Locals of Boston's South End. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. (1996). Notable Black American Women, Book 2. pp. 152–153. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
"School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University: 2009 Archives" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
Mahoney, Mary (June 17, 1951). "Girls' High School Alumnae Plans Centennial for 1952". Boston Globe.
"Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)". blackpast.org/view/vignettes. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
Riley, Sam G. (1995). "Lewis, Lillian Alberta (1861-?)". Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 9780313291920.
Woods, Lucy R. (1904). A History of the Girls' High School of Boston: 1852-1902. Riverside Press. p. 81. Retrieved 26 September 2014. Loring Lothrop boston girls high school.

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[50th-1] "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Girls' High School". Boston Globe. January 12, 1903.

[Namechange-2] Worsham, James (March 29, 1974). "School committee votes name change for Girls High". Boston Globe.

[3] Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy, eds. (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. London: Routledge. pp. 336–337.

[Legendary-4] Shannon, Hope J. (2014). Legendary Locals of Boston's South End. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. Retrieved 27 September 2014.

[5] Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. (1996). Notable Black American Women, Book 2. pp. 152–153. Retrieved 26 September 2014.

[6] "School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University: 2009 Archives" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 27 September 2014.

[7] Mahoney, Mary (June 17, 1951). "Girls' High School Alumnae Plans Centennial for 1952". Boston Globe.

[8] "Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)". blackpast.org/view/vignettes. Retrieved 27 September 2014.

[riley-9] Riley, Sam G. (1995). "Lewis, Lillian Alberta (1861-?)". Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182. ISBN 9780313291920.

[50thbook-10] Woods, Lucy R. (1904). A History of the Girls' High School of Boston: 1852-1902. Riverside Press. p. 81. Retrieved 26 September 2014. Loring Lothrop boston girls high school.