Wyandotte High School

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Wyandotte High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Wyandotte High School
Location:	Kansas City, KS
Built/Founded:	1936
Architect:	Hamilton,Fellows & Nedved; Et al.
Architectural style(s):	Moderne, Art Deco
Added to NRHP:	April 30, 1986
NRHP Reference#:	86000920 ^[1]
Governing body:	Local

Wyandotte High School is historic and notable public building in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

1 History
2 Wyandotte Pup
3 Gallery
4 References
- 4.1 General information

[edit] History

Wyandotte High School (1934-37), is located at 2501 Minnesota Avenue^[2], Kansas City, Kansas 66101. It is part of the Kansas City Public School system. On March 28, 1985, the school building was designated as a Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmark. It was registered as Historic Kansas Places on November 23, 1985, and placed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986.

Hamilton, Fellows and Nedved (Chicago), Architects

Joseph W. Radotinsky, Associate Architect

Hare and Hare, Landscape Architects

Emil Zettler (Chicago), Sculptor

Their mascot is the Bulldogs and their school colors are red,white,black,and blue their known for winning 20 state titles in basketball including a 1923 undefeated national championship season. In November of 2006 they're football team made a playoff appearance for the first time since 1987 but suffered a lost to St. Thomas Aquinas High School.

[edit] Wyandotte Pup

In the early 1930s the students at the School built a two-seat monoplane aircraft designed by Noel Hockaday. It was called the Wyandotte Pup. The design rights were bought by the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation and the aircraft entered production as the Porterfield Flyabout.