Old Lincoln High School
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This image is from Volume 1 of 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, while the quoted description is from Volume 2. "The top picture is of the Old Lincoln School that was built in 1902 and 03 at a cost of $55,000. The prevailing type for high schools at that time, was like this Lincoln School. It was way in advance of many other schools in the state because of the stage effect, modeled after the Wausau High School, which was considered a model of its kind then. When this was nearly completed the writer of this history suggested to Mr. J. D. Witter that he outfit the third floor as a domestic science school, at a cost of about ten thousand dollars. His reply was that he had other ideas for the school that he was not then ready to explain. It was not more than a month after this interview, before his attorney Mr. B. R. Goggins called me and asked for the legal title for the board of education. This I supplied. Before this new school was fin
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Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa)
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- McMillan Memorial Library
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Old Lincoln High School. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8299. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa), Old Lincoln High School. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8299
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- Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/8299>.