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Colorful murals by students and former students at Woodrow Wilson Junior High are not only a matter of decoration but a deterrent to students who might be inclined to deface the walls if they were left plain. Here Sonya Mair and Rich Lopez, both…

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"Speedy No. 13"///is the theme of this mural which covers a large area of the wall near the school auditorium. It is studied by Diane Weed, Dawn Runyon and Rick Lanegan. Sketches for proposed murals are presented by students for approval before new…

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Preparing A "Room"...for one grade school girl in Primary Hall at Iowa School for the Dear is Mrs. Marie Gronberg, director of housekeeping. Partitions separate the sleeping quarters for each student.

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An Elegant Barn...and 18 Holstein cows graced the school's farm in 1910. On 220 acres were several buildings, corn fields, pastures, a large orchard, vineyard and truck farm. The barn burned down somewhere around 1930.

C.B. Schools--Early
School Histories and photos of first sites of schools
Includes:
Old CB High School
Harrison
Dodge
Lake Central & Township High School
Sunnydale
Garner Township
McMillen
Woodland (Burned down 1953
Pierce St.
Stutsman…

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Three Tracts Of Land...still being considered for the proposed school are pinpointed by stars on the map above.

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Likely choice...as the site for a new eastside high school is the Sunbeam Home property shown here from Bennett Ave. It is the only ground on which the Board of Education has been able to obtain a purchase option.

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Pierce Street Frontage...for the high school site proposed by the City Planning Commission is partially shown here. North Avenue (not pictured) is at left. Altogether seven homes line Pierce Street.

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A tour of Eastside Junior High School grounds is made Saturday by Supt. Russel J. Mourer, Richard Peterson, Edward Larsen, contractor, Frank Griffith Sr., Richard K. Stoufer, School Board president, and Alex Weinstein, Architect. Peterson and…

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Students Relax And Study...in the spacious new library at Eastside Junior High School. The shelves in the rear eventually will contain about 20,000 volumes.

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This is an airview of the Eastside Junior High School. At far right corner is the new St. Albert Central Catholic High School. Bottom right corner is Arnold Ave.

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All That Remains...of west wall of Eastside addition gymnasium now under construction is pile of cement block rubble. Job superintendent would not speculate on cause of collapse. photo was taken immediately after collapse by a Nonpareil reporter…

C.B. Schools--Eastside Junior High
(Became Abraham Lincoln High School)

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The Second Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms and a large library. The combination gymnasium-auditorium at the east end would be a half=story below the second floor of the rest of the building because of the semi-basement rooms below it.

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The First Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms. In addition to the manual training, domestic science and lunch rooms in the east wing. This wing would be constructed in a semi-basement fashion to provide for a boiler room and ease construction…

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The Proposed Second Avenue School...would face Third avenue on the present Second Avenue school site. The 25-room brick structure would connect with the present cottage, shown at right, which would be remodeled and used as a primary unit. The…

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Edison School...was built at Twenty-second St. and Third Ave. in September of 1952. It replaced the old Second Avenue School. Edison has more classrooms than any of the other structures built under the School Board's program since 1950/

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Repairs At Edison School...get under way as workmen set up equipment to pour pilings set up equipment to pour pilings under the footings on the Third Avenue wall.

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Drawings For New Primary School...in the north part of the Harrison district show a "cottage-type" building. The site is at Grand and De Long avenues.
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