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Secondary Industrial School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1112 29th St., Columbus, Georgia
Coordinates	32°29′21″N 84°58′41″W / 32.48917°N 84.97806°W / 32.48917; -84.97806 (Secondary Industrial School)
Area	4.2 acres (1.7 ha)
Built	1906
Architect	J.W. Golucke & Co.
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No.	80001199
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1980

The Secondary Industrial School in Columbus, Georgia is a historic school built in 1906. It was the first secondary-level industrial/vocational school in the United States: it "has been called the nation's first public-supported, coeducational industrial high school." Located at 1112 29th St., the building was designed by J.W. Golucke & Co. in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

It has also been known as S.I.S., as Columbus Junior High, and as Jordan Vocational High.

It was a project of Carleton B. Gibson, who became Superintendent of schools in Columbus in 1896.

See also

• Harrison-Gibson House, home of Gibson, also NRHP-listed

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. ^ Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr.; Richard R. Cloues (January 11, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Secondary Industrial School / Columbus Junior High, 1939; currently Jordan Vocational Night School". National Park Service. Retrieved June 25, 2018. With accompanying 10 photos from 1979

External links

• Media related to Secondary Industrial School at Wikimedia Commons

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• High schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Vocational schools
• National Register of Historic Places in Muscogee County, Georgia
• Beaux-Arts architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
• School buildings completed in 1906
• 1906 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Georgia (U.S. state) Registered Historic Place stubs