The Maplewood School, also known as Grammar School No. 5, in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...

, was built in 1893, and was designed by Longstaff & Hurd. The school was enlarged later. And an annex building designed by architect Joseph Northrup

Joseph Northrup

Joseph Northrup was an American architect.Among many works is his own Châteauesque house at 475 Whitney Avenue, in the Whitney Avenue Historic District of New Haven, Connecticut. That building, built in 1896, is a "knowledgeable variant of the Chateauesque mansions of Richard Morris Hunt".Other...

 was added later. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1990 and includes two contributing buildings.

History

Maplewood School is historically significant as an example of the development of Bridgeport's school system in the late 19th and early 20th century. A rapidly expanding Bridgeport was then undertaking a massive building program to replace its aging one and two-room schoolhouses with modern schools.

See also

• History of Bridgeport, Connecticut
  History of Bridgeport, Connecticut
  The history of Bridgeport, Connecticut was, in the late 17th and most of the 18th century, one of land acquisitions from the native inhabitants, farming and fishing. From the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century, Bridgeport's history was one of shipbuilding, whaling and rapid growth...
  
  
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut
  National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut
  This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States...