Classic Pre-war Secondary Schools

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by muertecaza

This is probably one of the most obvious examples in Phoenix metro (although it's an elementary school and not a secondary school). Others include:

Chandler High School:

Nice pics! I know Chandler High well. I was enrolled in Tempe Union, but CHS wasn't too far away. I know it so well that I used to dine at Guedo's on the SE corner of Arizona and Chandler basically catty corner to CHS.

[sopas ej]

Monrovia High School, Monrovia, CA. Saturday, 7.3.2021.

Photo by me

[3rd&Brown]

Those Cincinnati Schools look amazing. I read somewhere recently that Cincinnati has the highest performing urban school system in the country?

[Anthony G. McKenzie]

Summer High School Wikipedia: "Sumner High School, also known as Charles H. Sumner High School, is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River in the United States."


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[mrnyc]

nyc has a little of everything style-wise:


ps 15 in eastchester in the bronx - is cute
1877 victorian gothic



ps 34 greenpoint in brooklyn - romanesquey
1867 romanesque/renaissance



old boys hs bed-stuy in brooklyn - over the top
1891 romanesque revival



ridder jhs, morrisania in the bronx
- quite a sight from the train & on the ground
1929 art deco



maybe my fav is erasmus hall hs -- flatbush in brooklyn
1905-06, 1909-11, 1924-25, and 1939-40, collegiate gothic





^ the erasmus hall academy is in the courtyard
1786, restored 2019 federal style



curtis hs -- st. george in staten island
-- reminds me most of the classic old hs's as seen above in this thread
1904, reno 2020 neo-gothic