Virtual Tour of Downtown Dallas

1889. Designed by Dallas architect A. B. Bristol and completed at a cost of $20,000, this former schoolhouse - the city's second public school building - at 1901 N. Akard was restored in 1971 by William P. Clements at a time when its future seemed doomed. Clements then used it as headquarters for his Sedco company. The building was used as a school until the late 1960s. In those later years, with the school population having moved away from town, the building was used for adult evening classes in trades and industries. The building was apparently very typical of Dallas schools of the time, as all other schools of that era look much like it. Just before World War I there were so many students in Dallas schools that Cumberland Hill used a double shift, six days a week.

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