5901-33 block of Germantown Avenue
Germantown High School

LCP: John G. Bullock Collection, number 55 (lantern slide, 1916).

1982 National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Colonial Germantown Historic District:
"(From NEC Haines to SEC High) Germantown High School, J. Horace Cook, architect, 1914; addition c. 1965, three stories, brick with stone and wood trim, Georgian Revival style. --- Contributing."

The high school was built on land belonging to E.H. Butler, including not only the Butler Mansion and outbuildings, but also the Morris-Littell House. During the decades after World War II the entire east side of Germantown Avenue between Haines and High Streets was demolished for additions to the high school complex. This high school was integrated from the beginning.

Additional Sources:

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 1, p. 116 (photograph of original Morris-Little house on Germantown High School tract).
• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 5, pp. 30-31 (1915 photographs, including one of the pediment above the entrance, "Designed by H.H.[sic] Richards and Cut by Benjamin Tweedale").
• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 6 "Germantowne 100 Years Ago" (1955), compiled and presented by Blanche Day: no. 60 (1955 photograph of historic marker on Germantown High School site commemorating previous inhabitants of the block such as Dr. Witt, the Morris sisters, etc.).
• GHS: Public Schools, Box 1, f. 8 (text describing the allegorical panel designed by H. Courey Richards--for an image see Photo Scrapbook 5, p. 31 at GHS).
• GHS: "Some facts about Germantown's New $1,000,000 High School and Thomas Reilly the Builder" (text detailing the number of bricks, tons of sand, etc.).
• HSP: Campbell Collection, vol. 33, p. 166 (photograph of the laying of the cornerstone for Germantown High School).

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