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800 Louisiana Street (corner of 8th Street) Photo: Postcard of old administration building. From LRSD archives. Building no longer exists This structure was built in 1892. The district sold it in 1960 to a business school. The old city library (which also no longer exists) and a parking lot later occupied this site. Temporary district administrative offices were set up in East Side Junior High School until the current Administration Building at 810 West Markham Street was completed in 1964. The building sustained damage from an explosion during the 1957 Central High School desegregation crisis when 12 sticks of dynamite were detonated near the south wall. Nuns from a nearby convent were able to give the FBI a description of the bomber's car, and he was captured.  Photo: Present-day Administration Building. Employees moved into the new Administration Building in December 1964. The Board of Education held an Open House there on May 15, 1966. Source:
LRSD archives. "School district employee marks 50 years on job." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article by Cynthia Howell, 4 Nov 1996, page 1B. If you have information about a Little Rock school or photographs that you would like to contribute to this project (we will return photographs if requested), please contact us! Updated December 2006 |
A History of the LRSD Famous Faces Central 50th Board Members Superintendents 21st Street Administration Bldg. Arsenal Badgett Bale Baseline Booker Brady Bush Capitol Hill Carver Centennial Central Chicot Cloverdale Elem. Cloverdale Middle Dodd Dunbar Dunbar Jr. College East End East Side/LRHS Fair Park Felder First Ward Forest Grove Forest Heights Forest Park Fort Steele Franklin Frazier Fulbright Garland Geyer Springs Gibbs Gillam Granite Mountain Hall Hamilton Henderson Highland Park Ish J.A. Fair Jackson Jefferson Kramer Lee Lincoln Little Rock Jr. College M.L. King Mabelvale Elem. Mabelvale Middle Mann McClellan McDermott Meadowcliff Metropolitan Mitchell Oakhurst Otter Creek Parham Parkview Peabody Pfeifer Pike Pilgrims Rest Pulaski Heights Elem. Pulaski Heights Middle Raney Rector Avenue Rightsell Riverside Rock Creek Rockefeller Romine Rose Scott Street Sherman South End Southwest Stephens Technical High Terry Union Unknown School Wakefield Washington Watson West Side Western Hills Williams Wilson Woodruff All LRSD History pages © 2005 LRSD. |
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