Old and New Emerson Schools
(New Emerson School Renamed May Butler School in 1957)
Old Emerson
School ~ 1890-1942
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This building
stood at the intersection of South Rodney and Clancy Streets
from 1890 to about 1942. It survived the 1935 earthquakes nearly
unscathed.
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CIRCA
1892 LITHOGRAPH BY WARD BROS., COLUMBUS OHIO - COLLECTION OF KENNON
BAIRD
New
Emerson School ~ 1942 • Renamed for Educator May Butler in
1957
| By 1941,
Emerson and two other schools, Broadwater and Jefferson, were
considered to be inadequate because of age. In June of that
year, a petition drive culminated in a school bond election
that passed overwhelmingly. Emerson and Broadwater were completed
in 1942 but, likely because of wartime constraints, Jefferson
was not completed until 1949. |
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The new
Emerson School (later the May Butler School, now offices of
the Helena Public School District) was completed in the summer
of 1942, at the corner of South Rodney and Miller Street,
about 1/4 mile north of the 1890 school site.
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