Taken from Klamath Country History, Klamath Basin Historical Society, 1984
(See a photo of the 1907 school building and other school photos by Maud Baldwin here.)
In 1907 the brick school on the hill above the present
school was built by a local contractor, Robert Wattenburg, replacing a much smaller
wooden building. This two-story, eight-room building had a central hallway on
each floor and was built from bricks made in a plant south of town. A cafeteria
in the basement was added in 1928, followed the next year by indoor restrooms.
The curve-topped little gym, built in 1926, stood just east
of the brick school and was moved to its present location when the old school
was abandoned in the early 1950’s. Before this gym was built, all school
activities, including basketball games, plays and graduation, were held in the
old town hall where Bold’s Store now stands.
Students from Lorella, Dairy and Hildebrand were sent to
Bonanza after the new two-story high school was built in 1937. This building
was destroyed by fire March 3, 1944. The twelve grades were again crammed into
the old 1907 building to finish the year. Grades ten, eleven and twelve
attended Henley the next year.
Designed with basically the same floor plan and rebuilt on
the burned foundations, the new high school was finished by September 1945 and
the gym in 1947. The grade school was added about 1948.
Additional classrooms were built in 1969 and 1976 when
student enrollment outgrew the 1945 structure.
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