This school, designed by the firm Malcolmson & Higginbotham, opened in 1921 in Detroit's Pingree Park neighborhood.

It was named in honor of Levi Barbour, an industrialist who pushed for Detroit acquiring Belle Isle. A monument, designed by Marshall Fredericks, stands in his honor on Belle Isle.

The building was closed in 2009, one of dozens of schools shuttered by the Detroit Public Schools District as it struggled with finances amid plummeting student enrollment and state funding.

Barbour School was bought sometime thereafter by infamous land speculator Dennis Kefallinos and has fallen into considerable disrepair.