On This Day in Arlington History December 3, 1956: Classes are held for the very last time at the Hume School, the future site of Arlington Historical Society. The Hume School is an 1891 former school building in the Arlington Ridge neighborhood. It is the oldest school building in Arlington County and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is also a designated Arlington County Landmark. The home of the Arlington Historical Society since 1960, the Hume School is currently operated as a museum. The Queen Anne-style building was designed by B. Stanley Simmons, a Washington architect. Frank Hume, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War and local civic leader, sold his property to the county for $250 and donated some additional land for the playground. It was an active public school from 1891 until it closed in 1958 because it no longer met safety code for a school. The building had two classrooms on the main floor and at least two classrooms on the second floor. A community campaign ended with the building being deeded to the Arlington Historical Society in 1960. The Arlington Historical Society moved into the Hume school in 1960 and began an extensive restoration before opening the building as a museum in the early the 1960s. The Society has set up a room on the second floor as a period classroom where visitors can still ring the school bell.
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