Historic teacher-training institution in Washington, D.C., founded 1873 and merged into District of Columbia Teachers College in 1955.
James Ormond Wilson Normal School was founded in 1873 as the all-white Washington Normal School, serving as a teacher-training institution in the District of Columbia. It was renamed in 1913 to honor James Ormond Wilson, the city's first superintendent of schools. The school operated as a normal school providing teacher training for over eight decades until 1955, when it was merged with the all-black Miner Normal School to form the District of Columbia Teachers College.
The school's main building, located at 1100 Harvard Street NW in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, was designed by city architect Snowden Ashford and completed in 1912. The structure is a distinctive Jacobethan building constructed of red brick with limestone trim elements. Today, the historic building serves as one of the campuses of the Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2015.