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Frank Hammond Elem School company history timeline

1875

Munster public schools have come a long way since the days of the three-room brick school built on the northeast corner of Calumet and Ridge in 1875.

1914

A ten-acre site between Columbia and Calumet on the south side of Ridge Road (now the site of the Center for Performing and Visual Arts) was chosen and construction began in 1914.

1915

The formal dedication of the new Munster School in March, 1915, included speeches, songs, piano solos and even a student pantomime (according to Trustee info, this was its name). There were still only eight grades, but they now had four classrooms, a library, and an auditorium.

1928

A wing of classrooms and a gymnasium were built in 1928.

1948

Eads was built on Harrison Avenue in 1948 for students living west of Calumet Avenue.

1950

The school was renamed Lanier School in 1950.

1952

Elliott School, on White Oak Avenue, opened in 1952.

1960

Wilbur Wright Junior High opened in 1960, and Lanier became an elementary school.

1963

Wilbur Wright's first addition was built in 1963 and included two lecture halls and a resource center.

By 1963, approximately 500 Munster students were attending Hammond High or Tech while others commuted to Griffith.

1965

Designs were pared down and construction began on acreage on Columbia Avenue in June, 1965.

1969

Frank H. Hammond's 25 classrooms, auditorium, and learning center were constructed on Fran-Lin Parkway in 1969.

1972

Wilbur Wright changed from junior high to middle school in 1972. when a new building was constructed just north of the high school in 1972.

1980

It closed in 1980, leaving the Town of Munster with modern educational facilities: three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school.

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