Old Huntington High School

38°24′46″N 82°26′46″W Old Huntington High School is a historic high school building located at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1916, and is a 4+1⁄2-story buff-brick building in the Classical Revival style. It consists of a long rectangle with a shorter rectangular wing on each end of the main rectangle forming a "U" shape. The courtyard is enclosed with three additions completed in 1951 (gymnasium), 1956 (cafeteria), and 1977. The building contains 155,512 square feet (14,447.5 m²) of space. The kitchen is located in an older red brick building built in 1916, built originally as a carriage house. The last graduating class was in 1996. A new facility was built to consolidate Old Huntington High and Huntington East High School into a single institution; the new school opened in August 1996 as Huntington High School.^[2] It is now known as The Renaissance Center. Part of the building was converted into apartments. The YMCA uses part of it for workout facilities and a daycare facility. The building also houses studio space, an auditorium, and small art gallery.

Huntington High School
Old Huntington High School, March 2009
Location
900 Eighth St. Huntington , West Virginia 25701 United States
Information
School type	Public
Established	1916
Closed	1996
School district	Cabell County Schools
Grades	10-12
Campus type	Urban
Colors	Red and blue
Mascot	Pony Express
Rivals	Huntington East
Huntington High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	900 Eighth St., Huntington, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°24′46″N 82°26′34″W
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1916 (1916)
Architect	Verus T. Ritter
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	00000248[1]
Added to NRHP	April 4, 2000

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

Notable alumni

• 1917 - Charlie Honaker, former NFL halfback, Cleveland Bulldogs
• 1917 - Hoge Workman, retired relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and a player-coach in the National Football League^[3]
• 1922 - Johnson Fry, former MLB pitcher, Cleveland Indians^[4]
• 1930 - Eddie King, former athletic director, Morris Harvey College
• 1939 - Dagmar, former actress, model, and television personality of 1950
• 1942 - Marshall Hawkins, retired NBA basketball Forward^[5]
• 1944 - Soupy Sales, former comedian and entertainer, notable panelist on the television hit What's My Line?
• 1948 - Bob Orders, former NFL center, Green Bay Packers
• 1955 - Leo Byrd, gold medalist at the 1959 Pan American Games for Basketball^[6]
• 1955 - Homer Heck, former West Virginia House of Delegates
• 1962 - Jacqueline Jackson, author and peace activist
• 1974 - Stephen T. Williams, former West Virginia House of Delegates, mayor of Huntington, West Virginia
• 1977 - Bruce R. Evans, venture capitalist, corporate director and philanthropist^[7]
• 1982 - Rick Reed, former MLB starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins^[8]
• 1983 - Jim Thornton, radio, television announcer, and voice actor; current Wheel of Fortune announcer
• 1984 - Ken Chertow, U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestler at the 1988 Summer Olympics^[9]

Popular culture

• In 1964, multiple scenes of Teen-Age Strangler were shot at and in the Old Huntington High School building.^[10]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cabell County, West Virginia