Fairmount Heights Elementary School

Constructed in 1912, the school was the first public elementary school to be built in a planned African American suburb of Washington, D.C. Three years after construction, the two-story building served 160 students and five teachers. In 1915 when a carpentry shop was added, the school became the only public school in Prince George’s County with “industrial” training facilities for Black students. The building served as the public school until 1934, and since then has been home to a church.