Carver Vocational-Technical High School

Carver Vocational-Technical High School is a public vocational-technical high school located in the Baltimore, Maryland.Founded in 1925, it was the first African-American (then labeled the "Colored" or "Negro") vocational-technical public high school) then established in the State of Maryland. Carver Vo-Tech serves grades 9 through 12, (freshmen-sophomores-juniors-seniors). The then "Colored Vocational High School" then joined the recently renamed Frederick Douglass High School (previously founded in 1865 as the private Douglass Institute on East Lexington Street, then moved two blocks northwest to East Saratoga Street by St. Paul Street/Place at Preston Gardens", where it was finally absorbed into the newly established "Colored High School and Grammar School" by 1883. After several other name changes, building locations and curriculum variations, the emergent alumni, faculty and concerned citizens, with the help of the local "Baltimore Afro-American campaigned for the Negro High School to have its own new building which was constructed in 1924-1925, on a city block at Carey and Baker Streets, in West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. Built of red brick with stone trim in the English Tudor/Gothic architectural style with all the features of a modern high school. With its now new name now of Douglass, the school moved from its older structure which although of beautiful heavy Romansque/Renaissance Revival style brickwork which had originally been built a half-century earlier for the City's elite female Western High School, now it was to revert to the newly established system of "junior high schools", which would be renamed for "Booker T. Washington" for continued black students in the still segregated system and would last another century almost with numerous renovations but noting its landmark architectuyre in the Druid Hill/Upton neighborhoods in old inner West Baltimore. new Dunbar High on the other side of town also received an art deco style building by the early 1930s. At. the conclusion of the Great Depression and World War II, a new building and name was also planned for the vocational school as the several other Vo-Tech high schools, like Boys, Samuel Gompers weren reorganized, merged and realigned with the establishment of the two Vocational-Technical High Schools at Carver at Prestman Street and the new Merganthaler built on Hillen Road in the 1950s opposite Lake Montebello and the water filtration plant complex with its Spanish-style architecture of industrial buildings with dark red bricks and green tile roofs from 1915