Grant Vocational High School

United States historic place

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]

## References

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1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ a b Jan Olive Full. "Grant Vocational High School" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 19, 2017.[dead link]

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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

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* 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

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* B Avenue NE Historic District
* Bever Woods Historic District
* Bohemian Commercial Historic District
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* Redmond Park-Grande Avenue Historic District
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* 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
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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

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* Grant Vocational High School

Transportation|

* First Avenue Bridge
* Highwater Rock
* IANR Railroad Underpass

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