Ellis School

Ellis School is a school building in Ashland, Wisconsin which was built in 1900. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1980. It is noted for its architecture—the design of Henry Wildhagen—which is of the 19th- and 20th-century revival styles.

For the secondary school for girls in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, see The Ellis School.
Ellis School
Location310 Stuntz Avenue
Ashland, Wisconsin
Coordinates46°35′39″N 90°52′22″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1900
ArchitectHenry Wildhagen
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
MPSHenry Wildhagen Schools of Ashland TR
NRHP reference No.80000103[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 17, 1980

It is a two-story-plus-basement Neoclassical building. According to a 1979 architectural review, its

simple, rectangular mass is varied only by a projecting center pedimented pavilion, cut by a Neoclassical arch over the entrance. The brownstone voussoirs and keystone of the arch and the basement story contrasted with the brick walls relate to the materials of the other schools. Although the grand arch and triple-window motif is again used to mark the story over the entrance, the omission of overt Richardsonian Romanesque references make the Ellis School unique among its fellows. Distribution of double-hung windows to either side of the center pavilion is regular, with four to each side. An elliptical window is set into the center pediment which intersects the low pyramidal roof.[2]

Wildhagen also designed three other schools in Ashland, also NRHP-listed: Ashland Middle School (1904), Beaser School (1899), and Wilmarth School (1895).[2][note 1]

Notes
  1. The thematic resources document notes the four schools were built in 1895, 1899, 1900, and 1904, according to school records, without distinguishing which (page 5). However, Beaser School was 1899-built (page 4). Ashland Middle School was the "finally produced" one (page 5), hence must be 1904-built. Ellis is "closest in age" to the middle school (page 4), so it must be the 1900 one. Wilmarth is noted to have been built in 1895.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Stauffer, Eugene; Barbara Wyatt; Diane Filipowicz (December 22, 1979). "Henry Wildhagen Schools of Ashland Thematic Resources". National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination. National Park Service. Retrieved February 15, 2017. and photo of Ellis School from 1979
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