Fourth Street School
- Now an apartment house, this elementary school building was built in 1911 for
use as a high school. The original school building on this site was bui1t in
1865, not including the wings on either side. Its cost was $6000. It was
considered by many to be an “unpardonable extravagance." During the
summer of 1867 Silas Wright opened his Normal School in this building. One wing
was added in 1874, and the other in 1888. The entire building was razed in May
1911 and during the summer the present building was erected. This building
accommodated the first six grades until 1969 when the existing elementary school
was built at the cost of $1,980,000.
