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Tubman High School
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Location1740 Walton Way, Augusta, Georgia
Coordinates 33°28′25″N81°59′51″W / 33.47361°N 81.99750°W / 33.47361; -81.99750 Coordinates: 33°28′25″N81°59′51″W / 33.47361°N 81.99750°W / 33.47361; -81.99750
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1917 (1917)
Built byPalmer-Spivey Construction Co.
ArchitectPreacher, G. Lloyd
Architectural styleBeaux Arts
NRHP reference No. 94000154 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1994

Tubman High School is a historic high school building in Augusta, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1994. It is located at 1740 Walton Way. It was named for Augusta philanthropist Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman and was founded as Neely's Institute in 1874. A new Tubman High School building was funded by a bond issue and constructed in 1917 according to designs by G. Lloyd Preacher. The three-story brick building's design is considered Beaux Arts architecture and includes terra cotta. It was the area's only public high school for girls until the 1950s. [2]

It became a co-educational junior high school in 1951 and is now a middle school. [2]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Tubman High School National Park Service