The New School Building
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At the western edge of
Coleman at the foot of the reservior hill stands our new school
building almost completed. It would be a credit to any town twice
the size of Coleman and our citizens should feel proud of it. Now
Coleman is ready and fully competent to furnish a high school course to
students from all parts of the country, and just as thorough and cheap
as elsewhere. The next thing that is aggitating the minds of our
citizens is the erecting of new churches.
(The Coleman Voice, Friday, June 5, 1908, page 3.)
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postcard
First drawing of the new Coleman Public School, about 1906
This is thought to be a
drawing of of the original architectural conception of the new Public School
building at Coleman. Apparently this plan was rejected, and the plan
shown to the right was accepted.
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postcard
Drawing of the new Coleman Public School, 1907
The bell tower appears to
be a ghost image. Perhaps it had not been decided, at the time the
postcard as printed, whether to include the tower or not. However,
the tower was built, but removed about 1914.
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High School, Coleman, Texas
south
and east sides - about 1908
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colored
postcard
Coleman Public School, Coleman, Texas
south
and east sides - about 1910
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Terry
Studio
Digital Copy
Coleman Public School, Coleman, Texas
east
and north sides - about 1925
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"In 1929, West Ward
School was located on Gray Street on the northwest corner of West Live
Oak Street
(later known as 105 Gray Street).
D. E. Loveless was the principal. Miss Lucille Eliot was a teacher
there, with no residence address given. Albert Simpson, and his wife
Nannie, were residing at the rear of West Ward School. He was the
janitor at the school." (Coleman City
Directory, 1929 - Hudspeth.)
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