370 W. 4th St. – Loveland High School

(Known as Bill Reed Middle School)

This massive structure opened in 1918 as Loveland High School. Upon completion of a major remodeling in 1939, the school operated as a combination junior and senior high school. After the older students left in 1964 to attend the new high school built on Twenty-ninth Street, this building was renamed Bill Reed Junior High to honor a popular faculty member.

A WWI veteran, Howard E. “Bill” Reed served as recruitment officer in 1940 until the age of seventy-five, when he retired as a Brigadier General. During some of those years, he juggled his Army duties with athletics coaching and science classes. In 1947, he was appointed Superintendent of Loveland Schools.