Schools 3

NORTHSIDE  SCHOOLS

               
                              Chase Ave. School                                                                    old               Kirby Road              new

   The Salmon P. Chase Elementary School opened in 1888 at 1615 Chase Ave. This school had no lunchroom so children ate on benches in the hallway or walked home. Vacated in 1979, it has now been converted into condominiums. The old Kirby Road School was built in 1869 just below Chase Ave. When the new school was built in 1910, the old school was demolished for residences. The new school was located at 1710 Bruce Ave. and Kirby Road.

               
St. Boniface School                              St. Patrick's School  

   St. Boniface School was built next to St. Boniface Church in 1870 on Blue Rock St. It was replaced by a new school in 1933 on Delaney Ave. St. Patrick's School closed in 1969.

CUMMINSVILLE

Garfield Public School

   The James A. Garfield Public School was erected in 1896. Located at 1905 Elmore Street it closed in 1979 due to low enrollment.

WALNUT HILLS

                       
First school built in 1895 at Burdett and Ashland Aves.

                                           
      4/4/63  Fire                                                     Present School built in 1931 at 3250 Victory Parkway

               
                  Two school plays                                             1936-37 school choir

   Walnut Hills High School began as a 4 year program (grades 9 thru 12) that expanded to a 6 year program (grades 7 thru 12) in 1919 when it became a college preparatory school. This change proved very popular, and in 1931, the school moved to the 24 acre site on Victory Parkway. The old building remained a school that was renamed the Burdett School that was closed in 1979. The building has now been renovated (2005) and is now the Schoolhouse Lofts. The photograph above shows a fire that occurred in 1963. A couple of alumni of Walnut Hills High School are Theda Bara , Jerry Rubin.

PURCELL  H.S.

2935 Hackberry St

   Named after John Baptist Purcell, the first Archbishop of Cincinnati it was constructed in 1928. It was a high school for young men and was merged with the girls only Marion H.S. in 1981-82 and was renamed Purcell Marion H.S.

DOUGLASS  SCHOOL

               
1910 6th grade class      Alms Place & Chapel St.           Name misspelled

   With an increasing African American population in Walnut Hills, Reverend Dangerfield Early began a school for the children in his home in 1858. When Walnut Hills became part of Cincinnati in 1870, the school came under the jurisdiction of the Cincinnati Colored School System in 1870 and a new building was built in 1872. It was called the Elmwood Avenue School. In 1887 Ohio's Brown-Arnett Bill called for the phasing out of segregated schools. In an attempt to circumvent integration, in 1902 the name of the school was changed to Douglass Elementary School, named for the famous writer and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. The school ostensibly was open to any child in Cincinnati, but in reality became a magnet school for African American children. It was hoped that in an environment where there was no racial prejudice and an all African American faculty, the children would be able to learn unhindered by bigotry. The school indeed became a beacon for African American children, and many notable citizens including Wilber A. Page, minister of the Union Baptist Church, DeHart Hubbard, the first African American to win a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics (broad jump), and Jennie D. Porter, a teacher at Douglass who went on to found Harriet Beecher Stowe school attended. I put up the back of the 4th card because it was produced by a company that I did not know even existed. It was produced by the National Negro Post Card Co., Cincinnati Ohio. I will do some research and, hopefully find more information. (I am unable to locate any information on this Co. Can anyone help?)

The schools from this point on will be listed in alphabetical order. (roughly)
 It was the only way I could get any order from this chaos.

Anderson High School Redskin Marching Band (1959)
Forrest Hills School District

                       
These four cards show The Bartholomew School in Clifton. No information

                   
    Bond Hill School                                 Carthage Public School
California & Maple Aves.                             74th St. & Fair Park      

               
Cleves Public School

                
Clifton Public School at McAlpin & Clifton Aves. Constructed in 1895

                  
College Hill High School                    Colerain High School             
                                                Founded in 1924

               
                                                                                                                                                 4th Grade Class
Elmwood Place  Public School

Not a postcard

School dedication 1900

        
Evanston Public School. Corner Dana & Trimble Aves.

           
Central Fairmount Public School

                      
  First Intermediate School at Clark and Baymiller Sts.                   George F. Sands School
                                                                                                                  n. e. cor. Poplar & Freeman

   The George F. Sands school was opened in 1912  at 940  Popular St. Named after the former school principal and president of the National Baseball Association. (1867-1868). It was changed from a neighborhood elementary school to a specialized school, Sands Montessori.

6 Glendale Public School cards.

                       
Guilford Public School 421 E.  4th  Street

           
Harriet Beecher Stowe School

   Harriet Beecher Stowe School  is located at 635 Seventh St. Opened in 1923 as an all black  jr. high school. It is now a school for the mentally retarded, and adult education

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