Document Type
Image
Preview
Creation Date
1920
Description
The east side and main entrance of the Ellensburg High School, built in 1912 on South Sprague Street. The building housed grades 9-12 and was the first our year high school building in Ellensburg. After 1930, when the Morgan Junior High School was built facing the high school, the two schools shared facilities. The high school used the Morgan Auditorium and the junior high used the cafeteria in the high school. After many uses, the old high school was torn down in 1991. The large house in the background is located on Ruby Street.Postcard titled: "New Ellensburg High School, Ellensburg, Wash." Street in front of high school is S. Sprague. In the photograph it is incorrectly labeled Capital(sic) Ave.
Recommended Citation
"Ellensburg High School III" (1920). Ellensburg History Photographs. 156.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ellensburg_history/156
Source
Local History Collection Photographs, Ellensburg Public Library
Format
image/jpg
Keywords
Ellensburg (Wash.) -- Buildings, Historic, Historic buildings -- Washington (State) -- Ellensburg, Ellensburg High School (Ellensburg, Wash.), School buildings -- Washington (State) -- Ellensburg