Alice Deal Junior High, ahead and to the left, honored mathematics teacher and union leader Alice Deal, who launched Washington’s first junior high school in 1919 at Seventh and O Streets, NW. Architect Albert Harris designed Deal in a Colonial style that represented the finest in modern school construction, and when it opened in 1931 its student body included diplomatic children, giving it an international flavor typical of Washington. Behind Alice Deal on a remnant of old Howard Road stands the Jesse Reno School, designed by municipal architect Snowden Ashford and opened nearly 30 years before Deal to serve the neighborhood’s African American children. Before Reno opened, they had walked either to a “colored” school at the site of today’s Murch Elementary or to one on Foxhall Road. Reno School served 160 elementary pupils and offered adult education at night. But between 1928 and the early 1950s, the city razed Reno City, home to most of Tenleytown’s African American families, to create a water reservoir, Fort Reno Park, and school campuses. As a result, the “colored” school lost its students and closed. The building survives, along with a few fire hydrants amid the lawns of Fort Reno Park and some houses in the 4800 block of 41st Street, as the only visible reminders of Reno City. Across Nebraska Avenue, Woodrow Wilson High School opened in 1935, honoring the 28th president, a past president of Princeton University, and the only U.S. president to have earned a PhD. Princeton’s tiger also became Wilson’s athletic mascot, and a community swimming pool long promised to Tenleytown’s citizens was added in 1978 and rebuilt in 2008.