Bowditch School

The Bowditch School is a historic school building in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The three-story brick-and-granite structure, built in the Neoclassical style, was designed by the noted architect Harrison Henry Atwood and completed in 1892. Its facade is distinguished by a projecting pavilion with square entrances, round-arched windows on the upper floor, and a modillioned cornice. The school is named after the astronomer and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch. After the city school department closed it in 1981, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and is now a protected landmark.