General Offices of the Evansville Public Schools at 200 NW 7th St., with 7 small boys standing in front. The building itself goes back to around 1860, when it was built by the German Reformed Church. In 1868 it was purchased by the school board and remodeled into Vine Street School. Next came use as a library. According to Wikipedia, "By 1874 the County Library had amassed about 3,500 books, but that year the library association closed and gave its books to the city for free public use. Therefore, a new city library was planned and governed by the school board. It was funded through a new penny tax and located in the former German Reformed Church building at the corner of Seventh and Vine Streets." From 1877-1897 a portion of the building was used to ease crowding at the Colored High School until its own building was built; at that time this building was remodeled.. The use pictured here began in 1887 when the superintendent's office located here, and continued to operate from this location until this was razed in 1969.