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Title
Woodward
High
School
photograph
Subject
Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Cincinnati Public Schools
Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
Coffin, Abigail Nichols Worth, 1808-1860
Cultural Ohio--Education
Time Period
1910s
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
A
view
of
Woodward
High
School
in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
, ca.
1911
.
When
this
school
building
first
opened
its
doors
(1910)
,
it
had
some
of the
most
modern
facilities
of its
time
,
including
flush
toilets
,
central
heating
, a
1,100-seat
auditorium
,
two
gymnasiums
, and
two
swimming
pools
.
Other
notable
features
were
12
rare
Rookwood
Pottery
drinking
fountains
from the
early
1900s
and
stained-glass
windows
of the
same
period
located
in the
main
entryway
. The
largest
of these was a
memorial
mural
entitled
"The
Landing
of
William
Woodward
at
Cincinnati
in
Fall
of
1791.”
In
1827
leather
tanner
William
Woodward
(1768-1833)
and his
wife
,
Abigail
Cutter
,
provided
land
and a
trust
to
pay
for a
free
grammar
school
that would
educate
poor
boys
. The
growth
of
Cincinnati’s
public
school
system
around
1829
caused
the
Woodwards
to
re-evaluate
their
goals
for the
school
. They
purchased
additional
land
and
built
a
private
secondary
institution
,
Woodward
High
School
, the
first
high
school
west
of the
Allegheny
Mountains
.
Woodward
High
School
of
Cincinnati
opened
in
October
1831
in a
two-story
brick
building
on
Franklin
Street
in the
city’s
Bond
Hill
neighborhood
. In
1836
a
new
collegiate
department
began
sharing
the
facility
. The
school
continued
to
grow
, and with a
few
years
,
construction
of a
new
facility
was
underway
.
Around
1850
,
however
, the
growth
of
public
schools
affected
Woodward’s
ability
to
survive
financially
as a
private
institution
. To
save
money
the
trustees
suspended
the
high
school’s
operation
, but in
1851
the
financial
situation
forced
them to
close
the
college
as
well
.
Rather
than
closing
the
high
school
altogether
(especially
with a
new
building
on the
horizon)
, the
board
of
trustees
reinstated
the
high
school
but
merged
it
with the
Cincinnati
public
school
system
. The
new
facility
,
designed
by
John
R
.
Hamilton
in the
English
Gothic
style
,
opened
in
1855
at the
corner
of
Woodward
Street
and
Sycamore
Street
. In
1860
the
remains
of
William
and
Abigail
Woodward
were
interred
in a
stone
vault
on the
school
grounds
near
the
Broadway
Street
entrance
; a
monument
and
statue
were
placed
over
the
tomb
. The
1855
school
was
razed
and
replaced
in
1910
by the
building
seen
in the
photograph
: a
new
five-story
brick
,
stone
, and
terra
cotta
structure
designed
by
local
architect
Gustav
Brach
in the
Second
Renaissance
Revival
style
.
President
William
Howard
Taft
,
who
graduated
from
Woodward
High
School
in
1874
,
laid
the
cornerstone
of this
building
,
located
at
1310
Sycamore
Street
.
When
Woodward
High
School
moved
to a
new
facility
in
1953
, this
building
became
Abigail
Cutter
Junior
High
School
(also
known
as
Cutter)
. In
addition
to
William
Taft
,
notable
people
associated
with
Woodward
High
School
include
Dr
.
Joseph
Ray
,
principal
,
1851-1855
,
author
of
several
popular
mathematics
texts
; and
Professor
William
McGuffey
,
author
of the
well-known
readers
and
spellers
. The
site
is
also
linked
to the
Underground
Railroad
. From
1856
to
1863
Levi
Coffin
and his
wife
,
Catharine
,
lived
in a
house
built
by
Woodward
on this
site
in
1832
.
Both
Levi
and
Catharine
were
legendary
abolitionists
who
helped
enslaved
people
escape
to
freedom
in
Canada
.
Levi
is
often
referred
to as the "
President
of the
Underground
Railroad.”
Date of Original
ca.
1911
Collection
Schools
and
Universities
of
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
Source
SC
527
Format
Picture
;
Postcard
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
AL06021.tif
Image Height
504
Image Width
504
File Size
498272 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-05
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