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Lambertville High School, built in 1854 in
Lambertville, New Jersey Lambertville is a city in Hunterdon County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 3,906,Lambertville school district. A fire destroyed much of the school in 1926, but it was remodeled and rebuilt in 1927 and used until June 1960. It sat (as some from the town have stated) like a museum from then on, on top of the hill overlooking Lambertville and the
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. The school was closed after the 1960 class graduated as it was too small and outdated for the growing area. Many small-town high schools were closed in the 1950s and 60s across New Jersey, as the state consolidated school districts and replaced obsolete schools like Lambertville High with modern, suburban facilities that could serve larger regional areas.
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was scheduled to replace Lambertville High and to open for classes in September 1959, but construction was unexpectedly delayed, and so the switchover didn't take place until September 1960, with Lambertville High continuing to serve local students during that year. The old "school on the hill" was then used as a place to sell electronics for many years, until it eventually sat empty and abandoned, though structurally intact, until vandals set a fire in 1992 which destroyed most of the building's interior and essentially gutted most of the structure, including the roof. The school was demolished in fall 2012.Renée Kiriluk-Hill
"'Haunted' high school reduced to rubble in Lambertville"
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Lambertville High History & Legends
in ''Weird NJ'' 1960 disestablishments in New Jersey Defunct schools in New Jersey Educational institutions disestablished in 1960 Public high schools in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Lambertville, New Jersey Buildings and structures demolished in 2012 {{NewJersey-school-stub