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 beneath a Gothic arch. The roof features flat as well as cross-gabled sections. Gable-ends are ornamented with variegated brick laid in a diaper pattern. The raised basement and first floor is faced with rusticated limestone. Limestone balustrades run along the parapet wall.

Adjacent to the school to the south is the athletic field which is original to the overall site plan. Because it derives its significance from the school, the field is considered a part of the contributing school property for the purposes of the nomination, rather than a separate contributing site.

From the St. Louis Public Schools website:

The History of Saint Louis Public School's- Theodore Roosevelt High School. Due to overcrowding at McKinley and Cleveland High Schools, the St. Louis Public Schools ordered the acquisition of property to construct a "New Southside High School" in 1922. Roosevelt High School opened on January 26, 1925 after two years of construction and the evacuation of Picker Cemetery for the construction site. It was designed by the famous architect R.M. Milligan at a cost of slightly less than $1.5 million and named after the 26th president of the United States. . . .Most of its students and faculty transferred from McKinley High School, which was then converted to a middle school, and a smaller number of students transferred from Cleveland High School.