St. Lucas Evangelical Church at 39 W. Virginia St., originally 1100 E. Virginia St., A.C. Rosencranz home at421 SE 1st St., formerly 721 Upper 1st St., Canal St. School at 310 Mulberry St., [Evansville] High School at 203 NW 6th St., [old First] Baptist Church at 401 SE 3rd St., and Park Memorial Chapel at 28 E. Delaware St., originally 1224 Delaware St.. St. Lucas, aka St. Lucas German Evangelical Church, now St. Lucas UCC had this beginning: On July 14, 1889, Pastor Schmidt arrived in Evansville to lead a new German-Evangelical congregation. On July 21 St. Lucas was born. Dedication of the sanctuary took place on April 20, 1890. St. Lucas continued to grow and the Sunday School Hall was dedicated on October 27, 1907. The 21 stained glass windows were bestowed on September 21, 1911. During the 1937 flood the Indiana Naval Militia quartered in the parish house. The church office also became a broadcasting station of military forces. (http://stlucasevansville.com/history/) Today this church looks much the same as this and well maintained, although the exterior tracery on the windows, including the rose window, is gone. Built in 1890, The Rosencranz house still stands, but the porch has been radically altered, meaning that it appears fairly different from this photo. It appears to be in OK condition. Albert C. Rosencranz was president of Vulcan Plow Co. Canal Street School, as it was originally called, was Evansville's first public school building which housed high and elementary classes. The first building was erected in 1855 at Third and Cherry Streets. The high school met in the 3rd floor of the original building from 1858 until it moved in July 1863 to the old Baptist church at 2nd and Clark..The schoolhouse soon became too small for the rapidly growing number of pupils and another building was put up by the side of the old school building and then still another until at one time there were five school buildings on the square. This collection of school buildings was at one point the largest in the city, though it hardly resembled the original school [only the 1885 image found looks like what is seen here.] The entrance was now from the rear on Mulberry St. Sometime around 1890 Canal was dropped and the name was shortened to Canal School. The school was renamed Wheeler School in 1910/1914 after Horatio Q. Wheeler who spearheaded the movement to set up public school system. This school closed in 1972 and was razed 2 years later. (http://historicevansville.com/site.php?id=wheeler). After having classes in various buildings, Evansville High School found a permanent home in 1868 on Seventh Street between Vine and Court Streets--the official address was 203 NW 6th St. In 1898 the tower and north and south wings were added. By 1918 the population of the Evansville had grown to the point where another high school, further west, was needed and Francis Joseph Reitz High School was built. At that time, the facility seen here became known as Central High School. In 1971 a new Central was built and this building was closed, and razed in 1973. The one exception was the gymnasium, which still remains today and is part of the current downtown YMCA. The school office shown here was built in 1860 as a German Reformed Church, bought in 1868 and remodeled as Vine St. School, was a public library, and was back in the hands of the school board as the superintendent's office in 1887 (or possibly the library and school office shared the building) It was razed in 1969. The Baptist church was built in 1867-1868 for First Baptist Church; when that church moved out in 1922, it became a synagogue and later (1947) Bethany Apostolic. It was razed in 1998. Park (or Parke) Memorial Presbyterian was built in 1889, with an addition in the rear in 1922.