Willard Historical Images

Battle Creek Central School Building, c. 1905

Show simple item record

dc.coverage.temporal Battle Creek. Michigan, circa 1905 en_US
dc.identifier.other LPC-011-001-001 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/9866
dc.description Postcard showing a photo of the Battle Creek Central School building, opened on April 10, 1871. The school was three stories high with a slate roof and cost $83,000 to build. It had a capacity of 864 students from all grades. It was located on the SW corner of McCamly and Champion Streets. After construction of the new Battle Creek Central High School building in 1908, the building housed the districts Junior High School until W. K. Kellogg Junior High School was constructed in 1931-34 and the old Central building was razed. Caption on front: HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING BATTLE CREEK, MICH Written on front: Fri. eve. Dearest Coz:- We arrived in good time and safely. Feeling pretty lazy. Hope you are all O.K. and will write more later. Lovingly Fannie. Sent on: August 18, 1905 Sent to: Miss Jennie Richmond Sent from: F J. L. Hudson en_US
dc.format.medium b&w postcard en_US
dc.language.iso En en_US
dc.subject Schools - Battle Creek Public en_US
dc.subject B.C. Schools, Willard Library en_US
dc.title Battle Creek Central School Building, c. 1905 en_US
dc.type Image en_US


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search Willard Historical Images


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account