Randall Junior High School

Randall Junior High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Randall Junior High School in 2022 following renovation
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Location	65 I Street, S.W. Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°52′45.48″N 77°0′39.18″W
Area	2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1906
Architect	Marsh & Peter
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
Restored	2022
Restored by	The Christman Company
MPS	Public School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS
NRHP reference No.	08001205[1]
Added to NRHP	December 22, 2008

Randall Junior High School is a historic building at 65 I Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C.

History

The school opened in 1906 as Cardozo Elementary School and expanded to its 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m^2) size in 1927 in the process of becoming Randall Junior High School.[2] Singer Marvin Gaye attended Randall and graduated in 1954.[3] The school closed in 1978. Then it became a high school career development center called Dix Street Academy until 1981.[4][5] After that, it served as a homeless shelter until 2004, and as artist's studios, the Millenium Arts Center.

Randall Junior High School in 2011, prior to renovation

In 2006, the Corcoran Gallery of Art purchased the building from the City of Washington for $6.2 million.[6] The initial redevelopment with developer Monument Realty LLC fell through. In 2010, a Telesis/Rubell group bought the property for $6.5 million and planned to redevelop the property beginning in 2012.[7]

The District had the option to reacquire the property in 2018,[8][9] but did not do so.[10]

In 2022, the Rubell Museum, a Miami-based private contemporary art museum, announced the opening of a second museum location, to be sited in the Randall School building. The museum owners purchased the property and renovated the main school building for the new museum, adding a multi-story apartment building next to the original structure.[11] The museum opened in October 2022.[12]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Elizabeth G. Randall Junior High School (Cardozo School) - Built in 1906, the Randall School represents an important era in African American education in DC". DC Historic Sites. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
3. Williams, Elliot (May 16, 2019). "You Can See Marvin Gaye as a Dapper Teenager at the DC History Center". Washingtonian. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
4. Stevens, Joann (May 24, 1979). "34 D.C. Valedictorians Lauded". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
5. Wiseman, Deborah D. (August 1996). "Perceptions of Administrators and Teachers Regarding the Relevancy and Frequency of Occurrence of Program Characteristics of Alternative High School Programs in North Carolina". Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
6. Jacqueline Trescott (November 30, 2006). "Corcoran Seals $6.2 Million Deal For Randall School". The Washington Post.
7. Capps, Kriston (February 18, 2010). "The Rubells Capitalize in DC". Art in America. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
8. Tierney Plumb (February 17, 2010). "Corcoran Gallery finds development partner for Randall School". Washington Business Journal.
9. Michael Neibauer (September 27, 2010). "Southwest D.C.'s Randall School bags new developer — again". Washington Business Journal.
10. "Rubells' Washington, DC museum is taking shape". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. December 2, 2021.
11. "This Art World Power Couple Will Open Their D.C. Museum This Fall". DCist. WAMU. Archived from the original on May 11, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
12. Pogrebin, Robin (October 28, 2022). "Miami Collectors Shake Up a D.C. Schoolhouse". The New York Times. Vol. 172, no. 59590. p. C1. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 9, 2022.

External links

• ReadysetDC | Creative. Urban. Lifestyle.
• New Development Potential for Corcoran's Randall School
• The Millennium Arts Center