Midview High School Dedicated – Nov. 6, 1955

Midview High School is one of those schools in Lorain County (like Firelands and Keystone) that I'm just not too familiar with and couldn't tell you where they're located. Nevertheless, I wrote about Midview before (here), when I featured its "Midview Middie" mascot.

Anyway, the new $800,000 Midview High School was dedicated back on November 6, 1955 – 70 years ago this week, as noted in the article above that appeared in the Lorain Journal a day later.

What's odd is that when I was prepping this post, various sources (including its Wiki entry) noted that, "Midview High School was originally built in 1956 as a Junior High School, until the needs of the district demanded more room for students in grades 9-12. The building was then designated as the High School in 1956, and has remained so ever since."

I'm skeptical about the accuracy of that contention. It seems like from the beginning, the plan was to build a high school. Here's the August 31, 1954 report of the awarding of the contract for "the construction of the new Midview High School slated for completion on Capel Rd by Sept. 1, 1955."

Groundbreaking took place on Sept. 23, 1954.

That same week, an architectural rendering of the new Midview High School was unveiled.

After doing my Google Maps "drive by," I'm guessing it's been enlarged over the years. It looks like the classic high school design – very similar to my own Alma Mater, Admiral King High School.