Florence Public School Building (Florence, Ky.)

Title: Florence Public School Building (Florence, Ky.)
Description: Floor Plan: N/A; The Center Street lot on which the building stands has been used for school purposes since 1890, when a two-room schoolhouse was built there. The present school was erected in 1931 at a cost of $265,000. As built, it housed grades one to twelve; it became an elementary school in 1954 when Boone County High School was constructed.; A substantial brick building of restrained Art Moderne style, the Florence school is horizontal in form, rising two stories above a raised basement (a popular form for school buildings of the mid-20th century). Focal point of the facade is a shallow projecting entry pavillion; the main doorway is enhanced by molded concrete surround and low-relief frontispiece. Additions at the west side and rear date from 1954.
Has beginning: Construction Date: 1931
Identifier: Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory designation: BE 968
Full address: 103 Center Street
Political division: Florence (Ky.)
Latitude: 38.93566775
Longitude: -84.77080613
Target coordinates: 693214.834 m; 4312000.402 m
Bibliographic citation: Historic Structures of Boone County, page 109
Source: Boone County GIS; Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory; Historic Structures of Boone County Kentucky

Item sets: Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Florence; Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Florence Precinct

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