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Grant Vocational High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	346 2nd Ave., SW Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Coordinates	41°58′27.3″N 91°40′37.8″W / 41.974250°N 91.677167°W / 41.974250; -91.677167
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915
Built by	F.P. Gould Company
Architect	William J. Brown
Architectural style	Prairie School
NRHP reference No.	15000728^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 13, 2015

Grant Vocational High School, also known as the Board of Education and the Cedar Rapids School District Central Office, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1915, this is a rare example of a vocational high school in Iowa as only a handful were ever built.^[2] While it offered various student activities in athletics and the arts, its curriculum was based on the manual arts instead of humanities or college preparatory courses. A Progressive Era idea, vocational education began in Cedar Rapids in 1904. Within a year there was a call for a dedicated vocational high school. There was much debate as the local school district's regular high school was beyond capacity and there was a need for new elementary schools. Efforts to build the school began with the passage of a bond referendum in 1911. Cedar Rapids architect William J. Brown designed the three-story, brick Prairie School structure and it was built by the F.P. Gould Company of Omaha.

While the school started strong, it soon failed to live up to expectations as vocational education was expensive to operate and enrollment was voluntary.^[2] Because the building is not unlike a regular high school, it was converted to that purpose in 1924. In 1936 Cedar Rapids experienced another round of school construction and Grant was converted into an office building for the school district. It served that purpose until 2008. The building now houses commercial enterprises. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Jan Olive Full. "Grant Vocational High School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-07-19.

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Agriculture	Seminole Valley Farmstead
Apartment buildings	Ausadie Building Brown Apartments
Civic buildings	Cedar Rapids Central Fire Station Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building Iowa State Highway Commission, District 6 Building Linn County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Building
Clubhouses	C.S.P.S. Hall Consistory Building No. 2 Sokol Gymnasium
Commercial buildings	Best Oil and Refining Company Service Station Hotel Roosevelt Iowa Building Lattner Auditorium Building Lesinger Block Paramount Theater Building Peoples Savings Bank Security Building Sinclair Building-Smulekoffs Furniture Store
Historic districts	B Avenue NE Historic District Bever Woods Historic District Bohemian Commercial Historic District Cedar Rapids 2nd Avenue SE. Automobile Row Historic District Cedar Rapids Central Business District Commercial Historic District Mays Island Historic District Monroe Elementary School Historic District Oak Hill Cemetery Historic District Our Mother of Sorrows Grotto Historic District Redmond Park-Grande Avenue Historic District Second and Third Avenue Historic District West Side Third Avenue SW Commercial Historic District
Houses	Robert and Esther Armstrong House A. T. Averill House Glenn M. and Edith Averill House Calder Houses William and Sue Damour House George B. Douglas House Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris House Lustron Home No. 02102 Charles W. and Nellie Perkins House T. M. Sinclair Mansion Taylor-Van Note Philip A. Wolff House and Carriage House
Industrial buildings	Cedar Rapids Milk Condensing Company Cedar Rapids Pump Company Factory and Warehouse Evans Manufacturing Company Building Hamilton Brothers Building Harper and McIntire Company Warehouse Iowa Wind Mill and Pump Company Office and Warehouse Shores-Mueller Company Witwer Grocery Company Building
Religious buildings	Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church First Church of Christ, Scientist First Universalist Church of Cedar Rapids Moslem Temple St. James United Methodist Church St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Schools	Grant Vocational High School
Transportation	First Avenue Bridge Highwater Rock IANR Railroad Underpass
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