Talk:Western High School (Maryland)

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How do we know the girls in 1744 were "excited"? Why is it a "pioneer" in girl's education? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Obafgkm (talk • contribs) 17:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Notable Alumnae
Removed from article, please provide refs before restoring: Meters (talk) 22:39, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Laura Lippman, author Wikilink says she attended a different high school
 * Alice C. Steinbach, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist No proof af notability or attendance

Meters (talk) 22:50, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Jaimy Gordon, 2010 National Book Award for Fiction No proof of attendance
 * Trazana Beverley, actress No proof of attendance
 * Tamara Dobson, actress No proof of attendance
 * Dion Fearon, film producer No proof af notability or attendance

Meters (talk) 22:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Nancy Grasmick, Superintendent, Maryland State Department of Education No proof of attendance
 * Ellen Lupton, graphic designer and educator No proof of attendance

Meters (talk) 23:06, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Belinda K. Conaway, Baltimore City Council District 7, (2004–present) No proof of attendance
 * Lisa Gladden, Maryland state senator, 41st district No proof of attendance
 * Farai Chideya, journalist No proof of attendance

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 * Western Doves Girls Basketball Athletics

Section about boys' high school removed
--start-- Five years before, "The High School" was established by resolution of the Baltimore City Council in March 1839 and opened the following October for boys in a rented townhouse on Courtland Street (a small north-south narrow alley-like byway running from East Lexington Street to East Centre Street), later the location of the city's first large scale urban renewal project in 1913 when five square blocks were razed for construction of the terraced "Preston Gardens" and widening parallel St. Paul Street and Place, named for the mayor at the time James H. Preston, near the present site of Mercy Medical Center). Under the supervision of well known classics scholar as the first professor/teacher and principal, Dr. Nathan C. Brooks. That first secondary school in the state and third oldest in America moved several times to rented structures in its first few years before the city purchased the old historic "Assembly Rooms" structure at the northeast corner of East Fayette and Holiday Streets, built in 1797 for the Baltimore Dancing Assembly, a social, entertainment and cultural center with two subscription early libraries housed on its upper floors. In 1835, a third floor was added replacing its peaked roof with ... surrounded by a balustrade pediment added to its classic red brick and white stone trim of Georgian/Federal style architecture.

Known briefly after the establishment of the two twin female high schools in 1844 as the Male High School, it was renamed the Central High School of Baltimore by 1849, when Professor Brooks left as first principal.

The High School remained here at Fayette and Holliday for the next thirty years until it perished in a large fire which spread from nearby famous Holliday Street Theater of 1794 in November 1873. At that time the massive pile known as the Baltimore City Hall, designed by new municipal architect George A. Frederick was rising across the street in 1867-1875.

By 1866, with a new extended five year stricter curriculum, the Central High School was renamed The Baltimore City College by resolution of the City Council in an effort to raise the academic level of the high school to collegiate simultaneously with a similar effort further north with the Free School of New York, a similar public/private secondary school and academy founded 1847, now known as the City College of New York (CCNY). --ends-- All the best: Rich Farmbrough  16:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC).