P. S. Dupont High School
P. S. Dupont High School | |
![]() Pierre S. Dupont High School | |
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Location | 701 W. 34th St.,[2] Wilmington, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 39°45′51″N 75°32′0″W / 39.76417°N 75.53333°WCoordinates: 39°45′51″N 75°32′0″W / 39.76417°N 75.53333°W |
Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | 1934 |
Built by | Smith, Karno |
Architect | Martin, E. William |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian |
Website | http://www.brandywineschools.org/Domain/760 |
NRHP reference No. | 86002917[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 23, 1976 |
P. S. Dupont High School is a historic high school building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1934, and is a four-story, "E"-shaped, red brick building in a Colonial Revival / Neo-Georgian style. It has a hipped roof covered with dark reddish-brown shingles, topped by a wood, three-level tower and cupola that ends in a multiple-sided, bell-like copper roof and weather vane. The school is named for Pierre S. duPont (1870–1954).[3]
It was one of three traditional public high schools in Wilmington, and initially did not accept black students, who were required to go to . It was disestablished after Wilmington was divided into multiple school districts in the 1980s.[4]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1] The school is currently used as a middle school in the Brandywine School District.[2]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "P.S. duPont Middle School". Brandywine School District. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ Stephen G. Delsordo and Patricia A. Maley (June 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: P. S. Dupont High School". and Accompanying 33 photos
- ^ Barrish, Cris; Eichmann, Mark (2020-01-18). "Could bringing back Wilmington High help fix school inequities?". WHYY. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
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