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Webster School
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1883
First Watertown High School
1911
02 02 New
Heating Plant
At a meeting of the Board
of Education Wednesday evening, the committee on buildings and grounds was
instructed to have Downey & Kruse of Milwaukee draw plans and
specifications for installing a new heating and ventilating plant in the
Webster school building. WG
04 20 School Heating Plans Ready
All interested in the
new heating and ventilating to be placed in the Webster School have now an
opportunity to examine plans at the city clerk's office and any suggestion in
relation thereto may be submitted to the Board of Education within one week
from date.
Dated April 19,
1911 /
Dr. C. R. Feld, Clerk Board of Education. WG
1956
06 22
What is to be the future of the
city's old Webster School in
Since the school was replaced by
a new Webster School building, the old structure has been occupied by two of
the city's parochial schools while their own new schools were under
construction. Both St. Henry's Catholic
and St. John's Lutheran parishes used it.
No immediate future use for such
purposes is now seen, since St. Mark's Lutheran congregation now in the process
of constructing a new school unit is using its present school building. And when the new Douglas School is built by
the city there will be no need to use the old Webster School building. So, for temporary school purposes, the old
building is “out.”
1957 08 24
A call for contractors to bid on
the demolition of the old Webster School building in
City officials hope to get the
work underway before winter if possible.
The city is retaining ownership of the site and will probably use it for
playground or park purposes, with the eventual use to be left to the Board of
Education should the time ever come when the site can be utilized for some
minor school use.
1957
10 23 The Kreitzer
Construction Co. of Watertown is in charge of demolishing the old Webster
School building in Western Avenue which is due to begin shortly. The school was abandoned in 1952 when a new
Webster School was opened in South Twelfth Street. Constructed in 1883 at a cost of $12,500, the
old Webster School served for many years as a high school and later became an
elementary school after the present Recreation Building was built in Main
Street and served as the city's high school.
Since 1952 the old Webster School was used on a temporary basis by both
St. Henry's and St. John's Schools while individual new schools were being
constructed by the respective congregations.
It has also been used in the summer as a vacation Bible school by the
First Baptist Church. WDT
1959
09 02 New City Hall proposed for old Webster
School site on Western Ave WDT
1961
08 05 A petition signed by 26
residents of the area opposing plans for the location of the city’s new fire station
on the site of the old Webster School in Western Avenue was filed with the
common council at its meeting last night.
WDT
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Fifth, (1883, 1st High School), WHS_004_NT025
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