{"nrhp_refnum":"11000672","name":"Libbey, Edward Drummond, High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1250 Western Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.63599566250008,"lon":-83.56978626449097,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Collegiate Gothic high school at 1250 Western Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, opened September 10, 1923, on a roughly 20-acre hillside campus above Swan Creek. It was designed by Toledo Public Schools supervising architect Edwin M. Gee.","why_significant":"When built, it was the largest and most expensive school in Toledo, costing $1.5 million. It reflects early 20th-century ideas about public education, with a gymnasium, a large auditorium, manual training and industrial arts shops, domestic science rooms and spaces for community use. It is also a major example of the Collegiate Gothic work of Edwin Gee, the most prolific supervising architect in Toledo Public Schools history.","narrative":"Libbey High School in Toledo, Ohio, opened in September 1923 as the largest and most expensive school the city had built, at a cost of $1.5 million. Designed by supervising architect Edwin Gee in the Collegiate Gothic style, it sits into a slope above Swan Creek and has a castle-like profile, with a four-story center section topped by four crenellated turrets. Inside, gray Carthage, Missouri marble lines the walls, forged iron stairways rise through the building, and a Tudor Revival refectory occupies the fourth floor. The plan separated the auditorium and gymnasium so they could be used after school hours, and a manual training wing held a foundry, mill room and machine shop to prepare students for Toledo's industrial economy. A field house followed in 1955 and a skill center in 1974, and the campus still contains the original track and athletic fields. The building is still used as a school and reflects the educational ideals of its era.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edwin M. Gee (supervising architect); Peterson, Hoffman and Grow (architects of the Albert E. Jeffery Field House)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Collegiate Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a school, with some original furnishings, plaques and equipment removed and the fourth-floor refectory no longer used as a cafeteria.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.429026-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/11000672.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000672/6a134ef16a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000672/6a134ef16a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NinjaZero1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libbey_High_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NinjaZero1</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libbey_High_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990039","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libbey_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6540391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/libbey-edward-drummond-high-school-11000672/"}