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Gillett High School is a complex consisting of an original core building, constructed in 1923, that is surrounded by extensive additions including an east wing completed in 1955 and a library, gymnasium, classrooms, and offices added in 1962 . A recent secondary school addition extends off the rear. The two-story 1923 segment portion (see Figure 2) is two stories and built in the Collegiate Gothic style popular throughout Wisconsin in the early-twentieth century. The brick masonry building has a flat roof and displays a stone parapet, belt courses, sills and label molds, and east and west portals with aluminum replacement doors on its front (north) facade. Fenestration consists of replacement fixed lights and awnings; the upper panes of each opening have been blocked. Additional decorative features include patterned brickwork on the building’s front facade and west (side) elevation, and projecting two-story crenellated -box -bays towers that surround each portal entrance. The 1955 addition is one story with a sunken basement level and displays a flat roof with a simple metal cornice. The 1962 addition includes a low-pitch, side-gable gymnasium, a one-story metal canopy, and a brick entrance wall with modern, stainless steel letters that read, “Gillett Public School.” The secondary school addition has brick walls and a flat roof with plain metal coping.
Before the 1923 building opened, all grades had attended Gillett Grade School on S. Elm Street, which began offering upper-level classes in 1909. Prior to that, students had traveled to Oconto Falls for high school. The mid-twentieth-century additions were driven by a greater proportion of the population attending high school, as well as the closure of smaller rural schools that, in turn, sent their students to Gillett.
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2443 W CHERRY ST (formerly 1443 N 24th ST)
230739
Located in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County
