Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Dateline: Hughes High IBZkTI-Iomas Hughes died, leaving his property to the city for the education of poor children. Income from the property paid for the education of needy pupils at Woodward College for ten years. 184?A lot for a high school was purchased on Ninth Street but no building was erected. It was sold in 1851 for $15,700. IBSFA Union Board of High Schools was formed. The Board decided that Race Street should be the divid- ing line between the schools. Pupils west of the line were to remain at Central School IHughesI; those east of the line were to go to Woodward. ISSkFirst Hughes class graduated from Greenwood Hall at Sixth and Vine Streets. 1853eFirst Hughes building was erected on the lot on Fifth Street opposite Mound. 1908-Cornerstone of present building was laid. l91kPresent building was dedicated. 1924715; new wing, known as the Annex, was added on the Stratford Avenue side. 1966-Property on Stratford Avenue was bought for con- structing a. new gymnasium-auditorium. .I'mmnI-Il IIIII III II I m --IIIIIIIIII IIIII . I I ' l IIIIII III lIIIIIIII - III: I N III IIIIIIIII III IIII'IIII .....IIII IIIIIIII I I . IIIIIJIIIIHIIH'I g; IIIIIIII 'IIIIIWI IIIIIII II . mm: IIIIIIIIII -. NIII'II -IIIIIII huh III

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The Provident Tower, Fourth and Vine. warn; - ,- 1m .raa-vv , v1; : ' ' '!:'47.'741,':!' Beautiful home of the Charles P. Tafts, now a museum. Plenty of old steeples! Symbolic Fountain, since 1871.