The Growing Pains of Aberdeen's Public Schools
School directors move to expand the new school site, requesting the city vacate a public alleyway to make room for construction.
The school directors have asked for more ground whereon to erect the new school building and have secured an option on lots eleven and twelve adjoining. They have also asked the city council to vacate the alley running from Prospect Avenue to the baseball ground and dividing the block. The amount of money from the sale of the bonds now in hand is $18,000, the original amount of $25,000 having been reduced by necessary incidental expenses. The building will cost in the neighborhood of $16,000 and when finished will have no superior on the coast.
“The building will cost in the neighborhood of $16,000 and when finished will have no superior on the coast.”
Education infrastructure remains a perpetual site of civic negotiation in Aberdeen, as the 1891 struggle for land and funding mirrors the ongoing debate over the modernization of district facilities.
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