| Site Id: | 3.8.5 |
| Rating: | Nothing |
| Other name(s): | Central High School |
| Address: | W. Garden Street |
| Location: | Auburn, New York 13021, USA |
| Lat/Lng: | 42.93449, -76.56845 |
| Completeness: | High |
| Building status: | Extant |
| Building date: | 1888 (Academic High School) [AAHS1906]; 1940 (Central High School) [ACA1940A, ACA1940B] |
| Architect: | Wallace P. Beardsley (Central High School) [ACA1940B] |
| Comment: | A fire 18 Jul 1903 badly damaged the building [AB1903] |
| The Class of 1898 - 1902 windows were restored and re-installed ca. Apr 1904 [AB1904A] | |
| Maitland Armstrong also bid to make the Class of 1905 window but Church Glass & Decorating Company won the contract [AB1905B, AC1905, AAHS1906] | |
| Academic High School demolished in 1933 and replaced on same site by Central High School, which closed in 1970, with building converted for commercial use in ca. 2000 [ROB2017] | |
| See also: | Church Glass and Decorating Company Census |
| 3.8.5.1: | Symbol, the tripod (1898) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.2: | Symbol, torch, palm, sword (1899) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.3: | Symbol, Janus (1900) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.4: | Symbol, wreath and torch (1901) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.5: | Symbolical of athletics (1902) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.6: | Symbolical of athletics (1904) (Removed) |
| 3.8.5.7: | Symbolical of athletics (1904) (Removed) |
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| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbol, the tripod [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1898 [AB1898, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Presented and unveiled 23 Dec 1898 [AB1898] |
| Size: | about 6' high by 3' wide [AB1898] |
| Lancets: | 1 [PHOTO, AAHS1906] |
| Inscription: | KNOWLEDGE / IS / POWER // 98 [AB1898, AAHS1906] |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbol, torch, palm, sword [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1899 [AB1899, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Unveiled 22 Dec 1899 [AB1899] |
| Inscription: | |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbol, Janus [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1900 [AB1900A, AB1900B, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Presented 21 Dec 1900 [AB1900A, AB1900B] |
| Inscription: | |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbol, wreath and torch [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1901 [AB1901A, AB1901B, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Unveiled 20 Dec 1901 [AB1901B] |
| Inscription: | Labor, omni vincit // A. D., 1901 [AB1901A] |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbolical of athletics [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1902 [AB1902, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Presented 19 Dec 1902 [AB1902] |
| Inscription: | |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbolical of athletics [AAHS1906] |
| Two landscapes, of summer and winter [AB1904B] | |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1903 [AB1904B, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | First seen by public, 2 May 1904 [AB1904B] |
| Inscription: | |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| Status: | Removed [AC1983] |
| Memorial name: | |
| Description: | Symbolical of athletics [AAHS1906] |
| Signature: | |
| Documentation: | [AAHS1906] |
| Memorial details: | |
| Donor: | Class of 1904 [AB1904C, AB1905A, AAHS1906] |
| Date: | Presented 23 Dec 1904 [AB1904C] |
| Inscription: | |
| Category: | Ornamental |
| Cost: | $228 [AB1905A] |
| History: | Sold at auction in Central High School, 6 Nov 1983 [AC1983] |
| AAHS1906: | The Auburn Academic High School, Alumni Directory 1866-1906 (1906, p. 7, 38) |
| AB1898: | The Auburn Bulletin (23 Dec 1898, p. 6) |
| AB1899: | The Auburn Bulletin (11 Dec 1899, p. 5) |
| AB1900A: | The Auburn Bulletin (19 Dec 1900, p. 6) |
| AB1900B: | The Auburn Bulletin (21 Dec 1900, p. 1) |
| AB1901A: | The Auburn Bulletin (17 Dec 1901, p. 5) |
| AB1901B: | The Auburn Bulletin (20 Dec 1901, p. 5) |
| AB1902: | The Auburn Bulletin (19 Dec 1902, p. 6) |
| AB1903: | The Auburn Bulletin (18 Jul 1903, p. 4, 6) |
| AB1904A: | The Auburn Bulletin (28 Apr 1904, p. 6) |
| AB1904B: | The Auburn Bulletin (2 May 1904, p. 6) |
| AB1904C: | The Auburn Bulletin (28 Nov 1904, p. 6) |
| AB1905A: | The Auburn Bulletin (4 Jan 1905, p. 6) |
| AB1905B: | Auburn Bulletin (26 Sep 1905, p. 6) |
| AC1905: | Auburn Citizen (23 Dec 1905, p. 5) |
| AC1983: | Auburn Citizen (7 Nov 1983, p. 1) |
| ACA1940A: | Auburn Citizen-Advertiser (14 Mar 1940, p. 6) |
| ACA1940B: | Auburn Citizen-Advertiser (18 Mar 1940, p. 6) |
| PHOTO: | Photo of item |
| ROB2017: | Preservation of Public School Buildings in Upstate New York, Chapter 2, Andrew Roblee (Oct 2017) |