Shortridge High School | |
 Shortridge High School. | |
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| Location | 3401 N. Meridian St., 46208 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 39°49′8″N 86°9′19″W / 39.81889°N 86.15528°W |
| Area | 10.9 acres (4.4 ha) |
| Built | 1927 |
| Architect | Kopf & Deery |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| Part of | Shortridge-Meridian Street Apartments Historic District (ID00000195) |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000078[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 15, 1983 |
Shortridge High School is a public high school located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Shortridge is the home of the International Baccalaureate and arts and humanities programs of the Indianapolis Public Schools district (IPS).[2] Originally known as Indianapolis High School, it opened in 1864 and is Indiana's oldest free public high school. New Albany High School (1853) was Indiana's first public high school, but was not initially free.
Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Shortridge class of 1940, said that Shortridge was:
"... my dream of an America with great public schools. I thought we should be the envy of the world with our public schools. And I went to such a public school. So I knew that such a school was possible. Shortridge High School in Indianapolis produced not only me, but the head writer on the I LOVE LUCY show (Madelyn Pugh). And, my God, we had a daily paper, we had a debating team, had a fencing team. We had a chorus, a jazz band, a serious orchestra. And all this with a Great Depression going on. And I wanted everybody to have such a school."[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Absolute News Manager.NET V5.0 : Licensed to Butler University". Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ^ PBS (April 13, 2007). "NOW – A Tribute To Kurt Vonnegut – PBS". Archived from the original on September 26, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2017 – via YouTube.