Peru High School Historic District

Last updated
Peru High School Historic District
Old Peru High School.jpg
Old Peru High School, January 2013
USA Indiana location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location80 W. 6th St., Peru, Indiana
Coordinates 40°45′16″N86°4′24″W / 40.75444°N 86.07333°W / 40.75444; -86.07333 Coordinates: 40°45′16″N86°4′24″W / 40.75444°N 86.07333°W / 40.75444; -86.07333
AreaLess than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1922 (1922), c. 1926, c. 1939
ArchitectWolf, Henry C.; Cook, Oscar F.
Architectural styleArt Deco, Collegiate Gothic, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 12001154 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 9, 2013

Peru High School Historic District is a historic school complex and national historic district located at Peru, Miami County, Indiana. It encompasses the Classical Revival style Central Grade School (c. 1922), Collegiate Gothic style Industrial Arts Building (c. 1926), and Art Deco style former high school (c. 1939). The high school was built as a Works Progress Administration project along with the Tig-Arena and is a two-story masonry building. The school yard is considered a contributing site. The high school remained in use as a high school until the new Peru High School was built in 1969–1971. Since 1990, the buildings have served as headquarters for the Miami Nation of Indiana. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [1]

Related Research Articles

Booker T. Washington School (Terre Haute, Indiana) United States historic place

Booker T. Washington School, also known as District School #10 and Washington High School, is a historic school building located at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. It was built in 1914 and was designed by the firm of Miller & Yeager Architects. It is a two-story, rectangular brick building with Classical Revival style design elements.

Union Bible College and Academy United States historic place

Union Bible College and Academy is a private Quaker educational institution combining a high school, college, and seminary in Westfield, Indiana. It was founded in 1911 by the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends and is a part of the wider conservative holiness movement. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Edinburgh Commercial Historic District United States historic place

Edinburgh Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburgh, Johnson County, Indiana. The district encompasses 48 contributing buildings in the central business district of Edinburgh. It developed between about 1854 and 1941, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Late Victorian and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Edinburgh Interurban Depot (1919), Mooney House, A. C. Thompson / Danner Building (1854), A. C. Thompson Bank (1872), Masonic Temple (1915), IOOF Building (1888), Central Hotel / Toner House (1855), and Edinburgh Town Hall (1920).

Horace Mann Historic District United States historic place

Horace Mann Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana, United States. The district encompasses 130 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in an exclusively residential section of Gary. They were largely built between 1919 and 1961, and include examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Renaissance Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.

Forest–Southview Residential Historic District United States historic place

Forest–Southview Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in an exclusively residential section of Hammond. It developed between about 1912 and 1949, and includes notable example of Renaissance Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman styles of residential architecture.

Mitchell Downtown Historic District United States historic place

Mitchell Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana. The district encompasses 75 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Mitchell. It developed between about 1853 and 1946, and includes examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Mitchell Opera House. Other notable buildings include the First National Bank Building (1927), Odd Fellows Hall, Jacob Finger Methodist Church, Dr. William Dings House, Edward Moore House (1894), Bank of Mitchell Building (1897), Fannie Moore Richardson House (1910), Mitchell Public (Carnegie) Library (1917) and Theatorium.

Marshall County Courthouse (Indiana) United States historic place

Marshall County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana. It was built between 1870 and 1872, and is a two-story, brick and limestone building in a combination of Italianate and Renaissance Revival styles. It is rectangular in form and has a hipped roof with central bell tower.

Gaskill–Erwin Farm United States historic place

Gaskill–Erwin Farm is a historic home and farm located in Tippecanoe Township, Marshall County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1879, and is a two-story, five bay, Italianate style frame dwelling. It sits on a granite fieldstone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. It features a front porch with mansard roof and decorative brackets. Also on the property are the contributing original Gaskill House converted to a storage building about 1910 and the Erwin seed corn drying house.

Shirk-Edwards House United States historic place

Shirk-Edwards House is a historic home located at Peru, Miami County, Indiana. It was built about 1862, as a two-story, Italianate style brick mansion. It was renovated in 1921 in the Classical Revival. It rests on a limestone foundation and has a low-pitched hipped roof. The front facade features a full-width, two-story porch supported by four full and two engaged columns.

James Omar Cole House United States historic place

James Omar Cole House, also known as the Cole House, is a historic home located at Peru, Miami County, Indiana. It was built about 1883, as a 1 1/2-story, Second Empire style brick dwelling. It has a square plan with two projecting bays and a mansard roof with dormers.

Converse station United States historic place

Converse, also known as the Pennsylvania RR Depot, is a historic train station located at Converse, Miami County, Indiana. It was built in 1912, as a 1 1/2-story, brick building in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. It is surrounded by a deep pent roof canopy on three sides. Above the pent roof canopy is a broad stuccoed gable. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and remained in use into the 1950s.

Converse-Jackson Township Public Library United States historic place

Converse-Jackson Township Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Converse, Miami County, Indiana. It was built in 1918, as a one-story, Classical Revival style brick and masonry building on a raised basement. It has a low-sloped roof surrounded by a parapet and features an entry flanked by two Doric order limestone columns. It was built with a $9,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation.

Westleigh Farms United States historic place

Westleigh Farms is a historic home and farm located in Butler Township, Miami County, Indiana. The farmhouse, known as the Porter-Cole House, was built about 1913, It is an asymmetrical two-story, brick dwelling in the Classical Revival style. The other main building is an imposing gambrel roof traverse frame barn over a basement. Also on the property are the contributing power house / garage, calving barn / shop, brick tenant's house, and summer kitchen.

Bloomington City Hall United States historic place

Bloomington City Hall, also known as the Old City Hall and Fire Station, is a historic city hall located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. It was built in 1915, and is a three-story, rectangular, Beaux-Arts style limestone building. Additions were made in 1950 and 1972. It features a modest entrance portico.

Home Laundry Company United States historic place

Home Laundry Company is a historic laundry building located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. The original section was built in 1922, and is a two-story, roughly square, red brick building. A one-story Moderne style wraparound addition was built in 1947–1948. It continued to house a laundry when listed in 2000 and currently houses a Chinese restaurant..

Monroe Carnegie Library United States historic place

Monroe Carnegie Library, also known as Old Monroe Carnegie Library, is a historic Carnegie library located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. It was built in 1917, and is a one-story, rectangular, Neoclassical style limestone building on a raised basement. The Monroe County History Center is a history museum the historic library building that was established as a Carnegie library. The museum is located on the site of Center School in the former Bloomington Public Library building. The library building is now home to the Monroe County Historical Society, their collection of artifacts, and their Genealogy Library. A historical marker is present at the site. The History Center is located at 202 East 6th Street. It is a tourist attraction.

North Washington Street Historic District (Bloomington, Indiana) United States historic place

North Washington Street Historic District is a national historic district located in the city of Bloomington of Monroe County, Indiana. The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and 6 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Bloomington. It developed between roughly 1870 and 1929, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Classical Revival, and Bungalow/American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Morgan House. Other notable buildings include the Showers-Graham House, Showers-Myers House, Teter House, and Washington Terrace Apartments (1929).

Prospect Hill Historic District (Bloomington, Indiana) United States historic place

Prospect Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Bloomington. It developed between about 1840 and 1936, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, and Bungalow/American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Blair-Dunning House.

Martinsville High School Gymnasium United States historic place

Martinsville High School Gymnasium, also known as the Glenn M. Curtis Memorial Gymnasium, is an historic high school gymnasium located at Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana. It was built in 1923–1924, and is a two-story, rectangular, steel frame building sheathed in brick and limestone with Romanesque Revival style design elements. It measures 180 feet by 210 feet and features angled corners with parapet, a main entrance flanked by square towers, and a mansard roof. It was named for basketball coach Glenn M. Curtis (1890-1958) in 1959.

Jefferson Historic District (Lafayette, Indiana) United States historic place

Jefferson Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The district encompasses 161 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 22 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Lafayette. It developed between about 1853 and 1951 and includes representative examples of Italianate, Greek Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the Deutsche Evangelische Kirche (1905), Isador Metzger House, Hubert Gilmartin House, B.F. Biggs Pump Factory Building, Deutsche Methodist Kirche (1885), Herman & Mary Fletemeyer House, Mohr House, Warrenberg-Reule Double House, Alfred Gaddis House, Wabash Valley House (1862), Haywood Tag Company Building (1928), and Jefferson High School (1927).

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/07/13 through 1/11/13. National Park Service. 2013-01-18.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-05-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)Note: This includes Michael Galbraith and Angie Quinn (April 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Peru High School Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link), Site map, and Accompanying photographs.