McCleary School | Historic Pittsburgh

1917-08-27

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Title
McCleary School
Identifier
MSP117.B004.F03.I14
Source Identifier
MSP117.B004.F03.I14
Description
In 1900 the School Board of the Mount Albion Sub-District purchased a lot on Holmes Street extending from the McCandless Avenue to Fifty-third Street. On this lot at the corner of McCandless Avenue and Holmes Street the McCleary School was built. McCleary School was named in honor of Miss Rose McCleary, principle of the entire Mount Albion sub-district, which included Sunnyside, Mount Albion, Morningside, McCandless, and the new McCleary buildings. The interior of the school included floors of decorative tile, elaborate door surroundings, cast iron balustrades with swings and medallions, and newel posts with lion heads. On the exterior, the second floor had distinctive rounded arch windows detailed with Ionic columns and Florentine tracery and a beltcourse with wave motif separating the stories. The school was still open in the year 2000.
Genre
photographs
Subject
McCleary School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
McCandless Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Holmes Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Elementary school buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Public schools--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Morningside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
East End (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
Rights Information
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center