Butler and Fortieth Sts., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Allegheny.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 30, 1986. NRIS 86002645.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Arsenal School is a historic school building in the Lower Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It houses both a middle school, Arsenal 6–8, and an elementary school, Arsenal PreK–5, operated by Pittsburgh Public Schools. The building originally opened in 1932 as a junior high school, with the elementary school addition completed in 1939. It stands on part of the former site of the Allegheny Arsenal.
The Arsenal School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and was listed as a contributing property in the Lawrenceville Historic District in 2019. It is also a City of Pittsburgh historic structure and a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. In 2004, a Pennsylvania state historical marker was placed at the school's athletic field to honor Johnny Unitas, who played there for the semi-professional Bloomfield Rams prior to his Hall of Fame career in the National Football League.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992132