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Senn High School

Architects
Paul Gerhardt, Jr. Arthur F. Hussander
Year
1913
Style
Neoclassical
City
Chicago, IL
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Senn High School opened on February 3, 1913, in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, built to the designs of Arthur F. Hussander, chief architect of the Chicago Board of Education, with Paul Gerhardt, Jr., and contractor Frank Paschen. The Chicago Public Schools building is named for Nicholas Senn, a surgeon, military-medicine instructor, and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

the building

A shared campus. Senn's campus formerly also housed the publicly funded but administratively separate Hyman Rickover Naval Academy, a distinct CPS school operating alongside Senn's own student body.

the style

The school was built in the Neoclassical style favored for major Chicago Public Schools buildings of the era, projecting civic permanence onto a purpose-built educational campus.

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the architect

Arthur F. Hussander served as chief architect for the Chicago Board of Education, putting his stamp on major public school buildings across the city, of which Senn was one; Paul Gerhardt, Jr. is credited alongside him on the design.

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