Attucks High School

United States historic place


Attucks High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°52′08″N 87°28′41″W / 36.86889°N 87.47806°W / 36.86889; -87.47806
Area	2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1916
Architect	John T. Waller; Forbes Manufacturing Company
Architectural style	Renaissance, 20th Century Modernism
NRHP reference No.	12001199^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 23, 2013

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,^[2] the Attucks Middle School or simply Attucks School,^[1] before being shut down in 1988.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.^[1] 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.^[4] The listing includes two contributing buildings.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "Two Churches and a School Added to the National Register". kaintuckeean.com. February 2013. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
^ "Crispus Attucks School (4K)". video. 2017.
^ Peter Brackney (February 1, 2013). "Two Churches and a School Added to the National Register". Kaintuckeean. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.