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Fall 2020 Sports Moved to Spring 2021 (March 2021)

Game schedules for four fall sports moved to spring 2021. Probably subject to some revision. 

Roosevelt HS Slide Show - November 2019 Photos

Here's a slide show of photos of the Roosevelt High School building taken in November 2019. It's a beautiful historic building.  Here's some information on the history of the building, gathered for a brochure we prepared for a building tour on March 12, 2020, just prior to the COVID-19 shut-down. From the Tower Grove East National Register of Historic Places application, approved April 30, 2013, page 76: 3220-30 Hartford (Contributing) Roosevelt High School was completed in 1922 and was designed by architect Rockwell Milligan. Constructed in the Jacobethan Style, the three-story variegated brick building features an "E" shaped plan and is ornamented with abundant limestone trim around window openings as well as extensive quoining. The monumental front entry projects from the plain of the building and features four, four-story towers capped with copper-clad zweibelturms. A flight of limestone stairs leads up to a grand central entrance which is deeply recessed bene