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The Kenyon House about 1900. The auto in the photo might be the earliest image we have of a car visiting Morris.
With new owners the Kenyon House became known as Gage's Block.
This postcard has a 1909 postmark. You can read the back by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
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Back of the card has these notes:
Erected 1932; Cost $330,000. Accomodates 500 students; Front pillars are Indiana Limestone; Entire building is of fireproof construction,
Principal, Peter A. Etienne
An undated unused postcard showing the Morris High School. It was built in 1894 and replaced in 1932 with the Lewis Rutherfurd Morris Central School.
The newspaper page attached below reports that Frank Churchill hauled the new heating apparatus to the school from Mt. Upton. It weighed 9,000 lbs.