Colfax Elementary School - Room No. 10

1950

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Title
Colfax Elementary School - Room No. 10
Creator
A. Church Photographers
Identifier
MSP117.B006.F02.I09
Source Identifier
MSP117.B006.F02.I09
Description
Colfax School honors Schuyler Colfax, who served as vice president of the United States during Ulysses S. Grant’s first term. The first Colfax School was a one room building located on Forward Avenue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. It was replaced in 1873 by a large building at the corner of Beechwood Boulevard and Phillips Avenue that housed eight grades and a teacher training school. This was a white frame building with a little bell tower and no indoor plumbing. Beechwood Boulevard was just a farm road at that time and Phillips Avenue, named for the Phillips farm, was not paved. In 1911 the new Colfax No. 1 School was built. Colfax School serves the East Hills, Homewood, Point Breeze, and Squirrel Hill communities of Pittsburgh.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Colfax Elementary School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Classrooms--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Elementary schools--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
Rights Information
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center

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