Morton School is a historic

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building located at

West Lafayette West Lafayette ( ) is a city in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Wabash and Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Tippecanoe Townships, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, approximately northwest of the state capit ...

Tippecanoe County, Indiana Tippecanoe County ( ) is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Indiana about east of the Illinois state line, less than from the Indianapolis metro area, and from Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population wa ...

. It was built in 1930, and is a two-story, E-shaped,

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style brick and

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building. It has a flat roof and features a triple-arched main entrance and stepped

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/brea ...

. It housed a school into the mid-1980s, after which it has been used as a

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. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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in 1999.

References

Schools in West Lafayette, Indiana School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Tudor Revival architecture in Indiana School buildings completed in 1930 National Register of Historic Places in Tippecanoe County, Indiana 1930 establishments in Indiana {{TippecanoeCountyIN-NRHP-stub