History |
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Wisconsin Street High School |
 None of the buildings built in the nineteenth
century as public schools by the Village and later by the City
of Port Washington now survive. The first public school that
served Port Washington was a small brick building (non-extant)
built in 1845 and located on the southwest corner of W. Jackson
and N. Wisconsin streets. This school later also served as the
City's first high school, starting in 1881, but it was razed in
1892 when the new Wisconsin Street School (non-extant)
was built on the site as a combined elementary and secondary
school. This $20,000 Richardsonian Romanesque Revival
Style-influenced school (315 N. Wisconsin St. see photo to the
left), however, was eventually itself superseded when the new
Port Washington High School (427 W. Jackson St.) was designed in
the Tudor Revival style by the Green Bay architectural firm of
Foeller, Schober, and Berners, whose original portion was built
in 1930-1931.(2) A second Tudor Revival style school, the
Port Washington Elementary School, which was also designed by
Foeller, Schober & Berners, was later built adjacent to the high
school in 1951 at ca.419 Holden St. The old Wisconsin Street
High School building, meanwhile, was destroyed in a fire in
1982. |