Editing DuPont Manual High School (section)

===duPont Manual Training High School===
In 1892, Louisville factory owner [[du Pont family|Alfred Victor du Pont]] donated $150,000 to the board of Louisville Public Schools to establish a training school to teach young men [[industrial arts]] ("manual") skills that would fit them for their duties in life. The [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] building was built on the corner of Brook and Oak Streets by the firm of Clark and Loomis, which also designed the [[Speed Art Museum]] and [[Waverly Hills Sanatorium]]. After Manual moved out of the building it was used as a Middle School until 1974 when it was converted to apartments.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Louisville Times]]|location=Louisville, Kentucky|date=June 16, 1981|page=A8|author=Cocanougher, Kelly|title=From the Old School-Apartment Project is Progressing in old Manual High Building}}</ref> Manual's first principal, Henry Kleinschmid, was a favorite of du Pont but was unpopular with the school board, which conspired to replace him in 1895. Despite a summer of controversy and protest from the du Pont family, Manual's first two graduating classes and the four major local newspapers, the board replaced him with Harry Brownell on July 2.<ref name="filson">{{cite journal|title=The Louisville Public schools: Their Names, Their History|author=Noe, Sam V.|volume=38|date=July 1964|journal=[[Filson Club History Quarterly]]}}</ref>

[[File:Brook and oak.jpg|thumb|The original school building in 2009, after conversion to apartments]]
Manual was initially a three-year school with some general academic classes and an emphasis on mechanical and industrial training. Although graduates recall the school being viewed as blue-collar and academically inferior to [[Male High School]] in its early days, numerous early graduates went on to become medical doctors, and students published a literary magazine called ''The Crimson'' from 1899 to 1955.<ref name="filson" /> In order to accommodate newly added French and [[Latin]] classes, Manual was expanded to a four-year school in 1901. In 1911, Manual became the first school in Kentucky to serve lunches to students.<ref>{{cite news|work=Louisville Times|title=Du Pont Manual, First School to Serve Lunches, Opens Modern, Spacious Cafeteria|date=March 21, 1924|author=Abrams, Ruth}}</ref>

In 1913, Louisville Public Schools announced a plan to merge Manual and its rival Male High School into Louisville Boys High so that the two schools could share a new $300,000 facility. The plan took effect in 1915. Industrial training classes continued at the old Manual building. Parents objected to their children having to travel between the two buildings and the consolidation did not save the school board any money, so they voted to end the experiment in 1919. The new building became Male's home for the next 70 years and Manual returned to its old building at Brook and Oak.<ref name="filson" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Old Manual Again Becomes School Unit|date=June 4, 1919|work=[[Louisville Herald]]|location=Louisville, Kentucky|page=1}}</ref> In 1923 an expansion added new laboratories, a cafeteria, and the largest gym ever built in Louisville at the time. The addition eventually burned and had to be destroyed in 1991.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Courier-Journal|date=September 21, 1991|title=Gym at Original Manual High Severely Damaged by Fire|page=7A}}</ref>

Manual's enrollment numbers, which had hovered around 400 since the 1890s, soared from 429 in 1919 to 1,039 in 1925. The Manual Crimsons football team, which had also been consolidated with Male's from 1915 to 1918, had great success in the 1920s, beating Male two years in a row for the first time in its history. Manual shared athletic facilities with Male for many years, but in the early 1920s alumni raised funds to construct Manual Stadium. The stadium opened in 1924 with 14,021 permanent seats. It was one of the largest high school stadiums in America at the time. The original structure was condemned and closed in 1952 after years of heavy use and minimal upkeep, and was reopened after being rebuilt in 1954.<ref>{{cite news|title=Male-Manual: 100 Years of War|author=Bartlett, Beverly|date=October 29, 1993|page=1A|work=The Courier-Journal}}</ref> Its modern capacity is 11,463.<ref name=SportsDirectoryInfo>{{cite web|url=http://khsaa.org/directory-data/member-school-directory/?school_id=76 |title=DuPont Manual High School KHSAA Directory Entry |publisher=[[Kentucky High School Athletic Association]] |access-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Lghs marker.jpg|thumb|Historic marker for Louisville Girls High School]]