Clinton High School/Roosevelt School

Clinton High School/Roosevelt School (School District Offices-Board of Education), 600 South 4th Street; 1888-1889; Josiah L. Rice, Architect, of Clinton.A large, two and one-half story building, it has a stone foundation and exterior walls of brick with stone sills, string courses, arches and trim. The major exterior changes of the building include; installation of new and smaller windows with infill panels above the window head; boarding up the window openings above the roof cornice line; and, the addition of a steel fire escape on the north wall. An installation of a sprinkler system in 1959 allowed the interior of the building to remain much as originally built, including open stair-wells and wood wainscot.The building is a massive structure of Romanesque Style design. It was built and served as the Clinton High School until 1921. It later became Roosevelt Elementary School and is now used for the offices of the Board of Education, Clinton community School District.