Schurz High School
| Carl Schurz High School | |
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3601 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60641 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°56′51″N 87°44′08″W / 41.9474°N 87.7355°WCoordinates: 41°56′51″N 87°44′08″W / 41.9474°N 87.7355°W |
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| School type | Public Secondary |
| Motto | A block long and a world wide. |
| Opened | 1910 |
| School district | Chicago Public Schools |
| CEEB code | 140700 |
| Principal | Kathleen Valente |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 1,199 (2015–16) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Purple Gold |
| Athletics conference | Chicago Public League |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Yearbook | Schurzone |
| Nobel laureates |
Vincent du Vigneaud (1955 Chemistry) Harry Markowitz (1990 Economics) |
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Carl Schurz High School
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| Location | 3601 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago |
| NRHP Reference # | 11000031 |
| Added to NRHP | February 22, 2011 |
Carl Schurz High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Irving Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The school is named after German–American Carl Schurz, a statesman, soldier, and advocate of democracy in Germany. The school building, which represents a combination of the Chicago and Prairie schools of architecture, was designed in 1910 by Dwight H. Perkins and designated a Chicago Landmark on December 7, 1979. It is considered one of "150 great places in Illinois" by the American Institute of Architects. The AIA has described the school as Perkins's masterpiece, "an important example of early-twentieth century architecture, utilizing elements of both the Chicago and Prairie schools."
The land upon which the current school is built was purchased in 1908, and is about two blocks south of an older building which was also Carl Schurz High School (located at 2338 N. 41st Court). The final site was approved in October 1908, with an estimated US$500,000 construction cost. Shortly after the school's opening, Carl Schurz's son donated a picture of his father and copies of his father's two published works to the school. The school was formally dedicated on the evening of 18 November 1910, with a presentation of a bust of the school's namesake. Able to accommodate 1,400 students, the building included an assembly hall, gymnasium, foundry, forgeroom, a physiographical lab, and lunch room.
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