Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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- J f. If I ' I .AJ V' A I SECOND IIIGII SCHOOL BUILDING T11e Seminary had the dormitory system, and after the Dis- trict purchased the property an extension was' built to the north on the Washington street front to afford additional rooms for non-resident students. The dormitory system continued until the building was destroyed by fire, March 29, 1857. Inasmuch as the High School succeeded the Seminary the name Seminary clung to it for many years, and is still occasionally used. Our High School is peculiar in this respect: it started out at once, like Minerva from the brain of Jove, as a large and important institution. For twenty years it was the largest and foremost High School in the state. But while the School was so famous and prosperous in its first two decades, it is worthy of remark that the number of graduates during the last five years is more than double the number in any previous ive years of' its history.

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Evolution of Sur High School Building E PRESENT on these pages pictures of the different buildings that have been the homes of the Ypsilanti High School. In the matter of buildings, as in other respects, our High School has had a peculiar and eventful history. It began in 1849 in the building of the old Ypsilanti Seminary, which was purchased by School District No. 4, for the purpose, in 1848. The building was 011 the present grounds, but stood nearly flush with Washington and Cross Streets.- It was originally erected for a hotel in the boom times of the early thirtiesg but after the financial crash of 1837 it was a dead property until the Seminary was established in the fall of 1844. I, ...lig- , FIRST IIIGII scHooI, BUILDING foI,D SEMINAVRYP.

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I . - .,- ......-,-,,,. ..- , , J I K. f PRESENT HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING