Stephenson High School - Dripping Springs, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 30° 11.599 W 098° 05.389
14R E 587615 N 3340557
The building operated as a high school only eleven years when a new school building was completed in 1949. It is currently home to American Legion Post 290 and VFW Post 2933.
Waymark Code: WMY26E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2018
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Texas Historic Site Atlas
By the 1930s, Dripping Springs Academy was too small to accommodate students in the town and surrounding area. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), local laborers built a new building to be opened for the September 1939 school term. It was named for a popular student, Allen J. Stephenson, who died from complications of a broken leg.
Stephenson High School is a one-story limestone building with a rectangular footprint. It is located behind Dripping Springs Academy off of Old Fitzhugh Road, and is accessed by a wide curving driveway.