The Mays Lick Consolidated School was the first high school in Mason County, Kentucky. It was built in May's Lick, Kentucky to serve students from seven separate lower schools.
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| Location | U.S. Route 68 and Kentucky Route 324, Mays Lick, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 38°31′22″N 83°50′13″W / 38.522778°N 83.836806°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1909 |
| Built by | McCowell, Douglas |
| Architect | Weber Bros. |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002733[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 29, 1982 |
It is an 88 by 63 feet (27 m × 19 m) two-story brick building facing northwest.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
It was designed by Weber Bros. architects and was built by Douglas McCowell.[2]
It served as a high school until 1960, after which only grades one through eight were offered. It served those grades until it was closed in 1981. It was then sold.[2]
When listed on the National Register, the school building was being converted into apartments.[2] An adjacent gymnasium building, built in the 1950s, was deemed non-contributing.[2]
The school's main building was in fact remodeled, in 1981, into fifteen apartments, and the gymnasium became a post office. The apartment building was closed in 2013, when a sewage plant failed. The sewage plant had served the apartments, the post office, a gas station, and a doctor's office; it failed due to lack of routine maintenance and was discharging raw sewage into a creek.[3]
In 2017 the vacant building was acquired by William Lawrence, of Lawrence Development and Rental Properties. In 2018, a first phase of renovations of the building, creating eight apartments, was completed.[3]
It is located off U.S. Route 68 on 2517, which was the old U.S. Route 68 and also is or was Kentucky Route 324.
See also
edit- Mays Lick Negro School, listed on the National Register in 2017
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Mason County, Kentucky
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Gloria Mills (June 24, 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mays Lick Consolidated School". National Park Service. Retrieved November 22, 2022. With accompanying four photos
- ^ a b "Mays Lick Consolidated School". Abandoned Online.