Name/Title
Duval High School, 1920s.Entry/Object ID
2003.001.108Description
Duval High School (after 1922)
605 Ocean Street
Architects: 1908: W.B. Camp; 1920 & 1922: Greeley & Benjamin
Founded in 1875, Duval High was the first public school in Florida to offer courses beyond the elementary grades. It was constructed in 1877, but was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1901. After the fire, Duval was housed first at the LaVilla Grammar School and then in Central Grammar. The Duval Hgh Alumni Association deemed this to be unsatisfactory arrangement and embarked on a private fundraising program to obtain a seperate building.
The building pictured was completed in 1908, the cental portion was constructed of red brick with limestone trim. It is four stories tall and has a hip roof.
On either side of the original building are two annexes built in 1920 and 1922, which account for the building's present three-part configuration.
The building was sold in 1977 by the School Board and sold to the Ida M. Stevens Foundation. Architect Ted Pappas redesigned the building for use as fifty-two apartments (Duval-Stevens Apartments) for the elderly at a cost of $1.7 million.Collection
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