Carson City’s first dedicated high school was this imposing brick building on Thompson Street. Previously high school students had to share a building with the other grades. That building was the Central School at King and Division. This modern high school was built just up the street in the 1930s, across from St. Teresa’s Catholic Church.
It was made obsolete when a new high school was built on the Winters Ranch a few blocks west (now Carson Middle School). This building was the Junior High for a bit, but by the 1980s it sat condemned, and it was demolished soon after.
Bordewich Bray elementary school had been built next door in the 1960s. After the old building was demolished, this new cafeteria was built on the site. The original Bordewich building still stands next door.
The school grounds in 1986, just before demolition.
In 1973, I started the 4th grade at this building. After the 1st half of the year, our family moved to Stateline, NV where my brother and were then enrolled at Zypher Cove Elementary. I rember gym class in the original gym building with the locker rooms under the bleachers. By 1975 our family moved out of state. Until I just now read this article, I never knew the old buildings were condemned.