Attucks High School Explained

Attucks High School
Location:712 1st. St., Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Coordinates:36.8689°N -87.4781°W
Built:1916
Architect:John T. Waller
Forbes Manufacturing Company
Architecture:Renaissance, 20th Century Modernism
Added:January 23, 2013
Area:2.7acres
Refnum:12001199

Attucks High School is a former school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, built in 1916. It was Hopkinsville's first public school for black students and was converted to an integrated middle school in 1967,[1] the Attucks Middle School or simply Attucks School, before being shut down in 1988.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It is at 712 1st Street.

The school was built partially from brick reclaimed from a former school, the Clay Street School. It was designed by architect John T. Waller and was built by the Forbes Manufacturing Company in a somewhat Italian Renaissance style, at a cost of $17,640.[3] The listing includes two contributing buildings.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Two Churches and a School Added to the National Register. February 2013. kaintuckeean.com. April 8, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190403215843/https://www.kaintuckeean.com/2013/02/two-churches-and-school-added-to.html. April 3, 2019. dead.
  2. Web site: Crispus Attucks School (4K) . video . 2017.
  3. News: Two Churches and a School Added to the National Register . Kaintuckeean . Peter Brackney . February 1, 2013 . April 3, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190403205028/https://www.kaintuckeean.com/2013/02/two-churches-and-school-added-to.html . April 3, 2019 . dead .