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None of the buildings built in the
nineteenth century as public schools by the Village and later by the City
of Port Washington now survive. The first public school that served Port
Washington was a small brick building (non-extant) built in 1845 and
located on the southwest corner of W. Jackson and N. Wisconsin streets.
This school later also served as the City's first high school, starting in
1881, but it was razed in 1892 when the new Wisconsin Street School
(non-extant) was built on the site as a combined elementary and secondary
school. This $20,000 Richardsonian Romanesque Revival
Style-influenced school (315 N. Wisconsin St. see photo to the
left),
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however, was eventually itself
superseded when the new Port Washington High School (427 W. Jackson St.)
was designed in the Tudor Revival style by the Green Bay architectural
firm of Foeller, Schober, and Berners, whose original portion was built in
1930-1931.(2) A second Tudor Revival style school, the Port
Washington Elementary School, which was also designed by Foeller, Schober
& Berners, was later built adjacent to the high school in 1951 at
ca.419 Holden St. The old Wisconsin Street High School building,
meanwhile, was destroyed in a fire in 1982.
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