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Title: Allerton High School, Allerton, Iowa
Description: Looking at a three-story brick and stone building which was built in 1901. It replaced the old school which was destroyed by a fire in 1900. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14277

Title: Clearfield High School, Clearfield, Iowa
Description: The first Clearfield High School was built in 1898 of pressed brick containing 11 rooms at a cost of $20,000. The building was destroyed by fire on March 24, 1940, on Easter Sunday and a new building was completed in 1941. That building was closed in 1986. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14038

Title: High school building, Fonda, Iowa, Fonda Community High School
Description: Looking northeast at the Fonda High School which was built in 1907. It was destroyed in a fire in 1927, rebuilt in 1928, and razed in 2015. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:15960

Title: High school, Correctionville, Iowa
Description: Looking at the front entrance of the second schoolhouse built in 1872. It was located at 117 Driftwood Street, Correctionville, Woodbury County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 63281.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16244

Title: Newton High School, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected in 1907 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. In 1957 high school grades 10-12 were moved to the new high school and the this building became part of the junior high campus. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14451

Title: Public school, Clermont, Iowa
Description: The Clermont School was a three-story brick building constructed in circa 1867, and it occupied the site until the Clermont Junior High School was built in 1924. A new public school was built in 1912-1913. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14036

Title: St. Patrick's Academy, Danbury, Iowa
Description: This St. Patrick's Academy building, built in 1908 by C.F. Mayer, a contractor from Humboldt, Iowa, replaced the white wooden academy built in 1887 due to lack of space. The new academy had a full basement and four floors. It was heated with steam heat and electricity. The first floor held high school classroom and an auditorium; the third floor held rooms for the nuns, the fourth floor or attic had several rooms for roomers who stayed at the convent. The building was destroyed by fire in 1910. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16962