Jordan School
35 Wood St., Lewiston, METhe Jordan School of 1902 by the well-known Maine architect, William R. Miller is a distinguished design statement in Italian Renaissance style and is also important in the educational history of the City of Lewiston. William R. Miller of Auburn and later Portland executed a number of extremely important commissions in Maine. Among these are the L. C. Bates Museum at the Hinckley School and the Lawrence Free Library in Fairfield, both listed on the National Register. He also designed the famous Casco Castle resort hotel in Freeport, now gone.
The building, when built, served as Lewiston's first consolidated high school, replacing the outdated district school system, and remained so until it was replaced in 1931 by a new facility. It then became a junior high school and remained as such until 1983. The building facilitated the secondary education of most of the City of Lewiston's population including its mayors, councilmen, and such other prominent people as the former Governor of Maine, James B. Longley. The building is clearly an important landmark in the city.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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