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Title	Broadway School
Description	"Broadway High School was the first commissioned high school for colored in Indiana" according to Grant S. Murray, Principal of the Broadway School from 1914-1917. In the September 6, 1880 edition of the Madison Courier, the newly opened school was described as follows: "43 by 43 feet, two stories high, containing 4 model school rooms, two up and two downstairs, with hall running across the entire front, and a door at each end of the hall the main entrance being fronted on Broadway with stairs at the right and the left. The building was made of brick with a belfry 14 feet high." In 1898 a new front was added to the building. Mr. James H. Blassingham was the contractor and builder. In the 1950s the school was integrated with Madison Consolidated Schools. It served as a community center for a time, then on New Year's Eve 1969, according to Fire Chief Harold Lohrig, quoted in the Madison Courier, "The old Broadway School was definitely set on fire." Damage was so extensive to the building that it had to be taken down. Where once a proud and distinguished piece of history stood, there is now a small park with only a stone placed with the date "1878" to mark its passing. Many landmarks have been lost, but few so needlessly.
Creator	Harry Lemen, photographer
Date	1944
Subject	School buildings; African Americans
Type	image; negative
Format	Scanned negative (2-7/8 x 4-7/8 ), 1200 DPI, online JPG saved at 72 DPI 1000 pixels on long edge with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Scan is full frame of negative. No correction of film errors. Slight sharpness and contrast adjustments.
Rights	Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main Street Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744
Coverage	Indiana-Jefferson County-Madison
Source	Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
Identifier	"Lemen1008-broadschool"
Notes	2 other views available; metadata resources: Historical Files; Madison Courier; Eastman-Kodak Brownie Camera No. 2C model A, with No. 130 film.