{"nrhp_refnum":"80001199","name":"Secondary Industrial School","other_names":["S.i.s.","Columbus Junior High","Jordan Vocational High"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1112 29th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.489219846000026,"lon":-84.97802620999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick Beaux Arts school building at 1112 29th Street in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, completed in 1906 to designs by J.W. Golucke and Company, with a 1930s rear gymnasium addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was the nation's first public-supported, coeducational industrial high school, locally initiated years before federal involvement in vocational education. It is also a fine example of Beaux Arts design in Georgia and one of the few non-courthouse works of architect J.W. Golucke.","narrative":"Built in 1906 at 1112 29th Street in Columbus, Georgia, the Secondary Industrial School is a three-story red brick building on a raised basement, designed in the Beaux Arts style by courthouse architect J.W. Golucke. Its five-bay front has a two-story portico with stone Corinthian columns, and a continuous entablature wraps the building. A low brick gymnasium and instructional wing was added to the rear in the 1930s. The school opened in December 1906 with seventy-eight pupils, about a third of them girls, combining morning academic work with afternoon manual training in basement shops. Superintendent Carleton B. Gibson proposed it as a trade school within the public system, and it has been called the nation's first public-supported, coeducational industrial high school. The nomination notes it predated federal vocational education programs. The building later served as Columbus Junior High School from 1939 and then as a night school. It also stands as one of Golucke's few known works that is not a courthouse.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"J.W. Golucke and Company","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in fair condition; altered by a 1930s rear addition; the form lists present use as educational (formerly Columbus Junior High, later a vocational night school).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.655896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001199.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001199/668fd6b45c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001199/668fd6b45c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SecondaryIndustrialSchoolColumbusGAFrontStraightOn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanielPenfield</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SecondaryIndustrialSchoolColumbusGAFrontStraightOn.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83003598","name":"Waverly Terrace","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/waverly-terrace-83003598/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209134","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Industrial_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55632783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/secondary-industrial-school-80001199/"}