McKim's School, also known as McKim's Free School, is a historic school

School

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 located at Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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. It is an archaeologically accurate Greek

Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

-style building. The front façade is designed after the Temple of Hephaestus

Temple of Hephaestus

The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is the best-preserved ancient Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill....

, or Temple of Theseus, in Athens, Greece in granite. Six freestone Doric

Doric order

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 columns, 17 feet tall, support the entablature and pediment. The sides were derived from the north wing of the Propylaia on the Acropolis of Athens

Acropolis of Athens

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. It was designed by Baltimore architects William Howard

William Howard (engineer)

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 and William Small and erected in 1833. It served as a school and youth training center until 1945, when the building was adapted for use as the McKim Community Center.

McKim's School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1973.

It is included in the Baltimore Heritage Walk

Baltimore Heritage Walk

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External links

• McKim's School, Baltimore City, including photo from 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust
• McKim Community Association, Inc., website