Squares 336, 337 & 364

Squares 336, 337 and 364. . , The city blocks occupied by today's Benjamin Banneker Academic High School trace their origins to the earliest plans for the nation's capital. Although the surrounding streets appear on the first maps drawn in 1791, the area was sparsely developed before the Civil war. By the 1880s, the three blocks designated as Squares 336, 337 and 364 contained row houses typical of the period. In the 1960s, urban renewal plans called for buildings and property to be taken by eminent domain. These plans resulted in a portion of the properties to be set aside for the construction of a junior high school and playground. As part of the development of the school and recreation area in the 1970s, 10th St., NW was closed to create a superblock.,

"On record now, , thy name's enrolled, , and future , ages will be , told, there , lived a man , called , Banneker, , An African , Astronomer!" , , An Address to Benjamin Banneker, an African Astronomer, who Presented the Author with a Manuscript Almanac in 1796 [Poem by Susanna Mason, 1796]