From the Lawrence Daily World for April 20, 1909: “The board of education has purchased an entire block in South Lawrence to be used for a school house in several years when the town has grown enough to justify the construction of a school in that end of the city. The new property is the 1400 block between Rhode Island and Connecticut and the city now has title to the entire block. There is talk of using half the area for a school and selling the rest of the land.”