Photograph of Armstrong/Garrison School

Photograph of Armstrong/Garrison School

Schools--Kansas City, Kansas
USD 500
Schools--Architecture

Black and white photo of Armstrong School, front elevation. The Armstrong school was constructed in 1873 as a two-story, two-room brick building. The school and grounds lay north of the Union Pacific tracks in the Armstrong settlement. In 1926 African American students from the Garrison School in the Armstrong attendance area were reassigned to the old Armstrong School, and the name then became Garrison School. In 1956 the building was demolished to make way for the Kansas Turnpike. It was used for a time as a practice building in fire fighting by Kansas City Fire Department. The cornerstone of the old building was placed at the Wyandotte Historical Museum.

Bill Radford

Kansas Room Special Collections

Kansas City, Kansas Public Library

1929

JPG

eng

Gelatin silver print

KSCOLl_PH_Garrison_01

Gelatin silver print

8 x 10 in