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Highland School (Boulder, Colorado)

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Built
  
1891 or 1892; 1923

CSRHP #
  
5BL.364

Area
  
3,200 m²

Architect
  
Frederick Sterner

NRHP Reference #
  
78000831

Opened
  
1892

Added to NRHP
  
18 December 1978

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Location
  
885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, Colorado

Architectural styles
  
Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture, Gothic architecture

Similar
  
Pearl Street Mall, Rocky Mountains, Boulder Creek, Briarhurst, Glen Eyrie

Highland School, also or previously known as Highland-Lawn School, is an 1892 building at 9th Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, Colorado. It was the fourth school built in Boulder and was used as a school until 1971. The Highland School Building was converted to use as an office building and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The building is constructed of red brick and blond sandstone mined from local quarries.

Highland School was threatened with demolition in 1971. Civic leaders opposed to the demolition of the School and nearby Central School (Boulder, Colorado) formed Historic Boulder, Inc. to advocate for its preservation.

The school was designed by the Denver firm of Varian and Sterner in 1890. It was doubled in size in a 1923 extension which was designed to be entirely compatible to the original building.

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Highland School (Boulder, Colorado) Wikipedia