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The Louisa High School, constructed in 1924, replaced a 1907 school destroyed by fire. Constructed of stone, the Louisa High School building was designed by Charles M. Robinson, architect for dozens of other Virginia schools. Originally the school served students in grades one through eleven. The school property is located in a residential neighborhood of early-20th-century frame bungalows and late-20th-century houses, two blocks from the center of the town of Louisa in Louisa County. The granite ashlar school building that served the Louisa County school system for eighty years went on to be utilized as a town hall and performing arts center. A 2006 addition to the Louisa High School building’s east elevation served as an art gallery.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
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
