The Montgomery Street School, located at 2500-2506 Montgomery Street, Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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. Built in 1852, and once used as a Civil War

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 hospital, it has been a school since 1869. It has since been expanded and renovated. It was formerly the Emma Dolfinger School, a public elementary school. Until 2008, the building was used by Portland Christian School

Portland Christian School

The Portland Christian School System, based in Louisville, Kentucky, with campuses in the Portland and Eastside neighborhoods of Louisville, is a private Christian school traditionally supported and affiliated with those churches of Christ which held to a premillennial eschatology characteristic of...

as an elementary school, but Portland Christian has since consolidated the elementary school into its Portland Ave. campus one block to the south.