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Built in 1917, the Walter Herron Taylor Elementary School in Norfolk was designed by Virginia architect John Kevan Peebles, noted for his work at the University of Virginia, the Virginia State Capitol, and the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Buildings in Norfolk. The school building itself was modest in size and presentation, thus being sympathetic to the Colonial Revival homes of the surrounding West Ghent neighborhood, built in the same era. In 1918, shortly after its construction, the school was used temporarily as a hospital and morgue during the Spanish influenza epidemic. The epidemic claimed 562 lives in the city in just five weeks. The Taylor School then returned to use as an elementary school and served Norfolk students until the end of the 20th century.
The Walter Herron Taylor Elementary School was demolished in June of 1999.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
