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Montgomery Street School

  • Also Known As: Emma Dolfinger School
  • Also Known As: High Street (Northwestern Parkway) School
  • Address: 2500 - 2506 Montgomery St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Montgomery Street School is an antebellum schoolhouse located on a residential street in the Portland area of the city of Louisville's West End. About one mile west of the school is the Portland Historic District. Designed in a modified Renaissance Revival style popular during this period, the school is a significant example of the educational facilities in Louisville in the mid-nineteenth century. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1857/00/00 Zeigler and Seaman Carpenters High Street (Northwestern Parkway) School is completed in the spring or summer of 1857.
1857/00/00 Rogers and Whitestone Possible Architects In late 1857, construction begins on the High Street School, a two-story, red brick, Renaissance Revival building in Louisville. It is possible that the school was designed by Isaiah Rogers and Henry Whitestone.
1912/00/00 A large addition is built on the west side of the Montgomery Street School.

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Particulars for Montgomery Street School:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Owner Private
Architectural Style Renaissance Revival
Historic Use School



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 82002713
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Zeigler and Seaman
Architectural Style: Renaissance
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1857, 1912
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: School
Current Function: Education
Current Sub-Function: School

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