Samuel F. B. Morse School

	Samuel F.B. Morse School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2418 Sarah Street (South Side Flats), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates	40°25′36.72″N 79°58′14.52″W / 40.4268667°N 79.9707000°W
Built	1874
Architect	T.D. Evans
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	86002694
Added to NRHP	September 30, 1986

The Samuel F.B. Morse School at 2418 Sarah Street in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1874. It was named in honor of Samuel Morse, who is commonly called the inventor of the telegraph. Today, it is an apartment building known as "Morse Gardens".

The school originally served an area of German, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh immigrants, who floated a $66,000 bond issue in order to build the school.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Morse Gardens" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 8, 2014.

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-5199, "Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth & Twenty-fifth Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 14 photos, 18 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[phrs-2] "Morse Gardens" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 8, 2014.

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