The Arsenal Middle School (previously Arsenal Junior High School) in the Lower Lawrenceville neighborhood of

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, was built in 1932, with a wing for elementary students added in 1939. The school was listed on the

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in 1986. It is built on the site of a United States arsenal used during the

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, the founder of Lawrenceville and the father of musician

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