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Webster School

511 Western Avenue

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 Western Avenue?  That is a question that is soon to be faced by the City Council.  No longer used for school purposes, all sorts of suggestions have been made in the past two or three years regarding its future, but so far no one has come up with the right answer.

 

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 Western Avenue is expected to be issued in an official city advertisement shortly, in compliance with a resolution to that effect which the City Council adopted at its meeting last week. 

 

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

 

Cross References:

 

Webster School 1913, Western and Fifth, (1883, 1st High School), WHS_004_NT025

Webster School, old (Western Ave) 1917-18, Fourth grade class, Bernice Krueger teacher

Webster School, old (Western Ave) Constructed by Christian Schmutzler

Webster School, old (Western Ave) Webster School, Old

Webster School, old (Western Ave) Webster School, Old

Webster School, old (Western Ave) Webster School, Old