A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . the fourteenth of February, the council committee on schoolsrecommended tiiat the school committee be authorized to advertisefor proposals for the erection of a building on the high school lotin conformity with the plan which is presented herewith and recom-mended by the board of education, and Mr. Bradburn introduced aresolution instructing the committee to advertise for such the twenty-eighth of ]\rarch, and on the motion of Mr. Bradl)urn,the committee was authorized to enter into
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . the fourteenth of February, the council committee on schoolsrecommended tiiat the school committee be authorized to advertisefor proposals for the erection of a building on the high school lotin conformity with the plan which is presented herewith and recom-mended by the board of education, and Mr. Bradburn introduced aresolution instructing the committee to advertise for such the twenty-eighth of ]\rarch, and on the motion of Mr. Bradl)urn,the committee was authorized to enter into contract for such a build-ing for the sum of $15,400, the amount of the lowest of the fourteen 356 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXII proposals that had been received. At the begiiiuiog of the fall term,the high school was removed to the Prospect Street building where itremained until the new building was dedicated on the first of April,1856.* West High School For several years an Ohio City senior school had been conductedin the building known as The Seminary; when the Kentucky Street. A. G. IIOPKINSON school building was completed this school was transferred to theupper rooms thereof. When llie East Side got wliat I shall hereafterdesignate as the Central lligli Scliool, the West Siders, naturallyenough, wanted a West High Sfliddl, llie special legislation thatMr. Bradbui-n luul soenrcd at Colnmliiis provided for only one high *A picture of the building nuiy Ix Iouinl in a later cliaiitcr, Tlio Pul)lioLibrary. 1856-59] THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 357 school, and so a branch of the Central High School was established inthe Kentueky Street huihiing;. This was known as the Branch HighSchool, but other than in name, it was an independent school witha course of study identical with that of the Central High first principal of this school was A. G. Ilopkinson; he held theposition until 1S70. Cleveland now had two high schools, the Westand the Central. She did not get a th
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