Phillips School, Nov17 2010
This architecture is typical of 19th-century Boston schoolhouses. Erected in 1824, this school was open only to white children until 1855. Black children in the neighboorhood attended school on the first floor of the African Meeting House or, after 1834, the Abiel Smith School. When segregated schools were abolished by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1855, the Phillips School became the first integrated school in Boston.