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Building gets facelift . . . Continued from Page l construction now contains roe. "But it was still apartments.) Consequently, worthwhile," she added. the first-and second-graders "Many persons have found were returned from the enjoyment using the pool." Community Building to the The Louisville Historical Memory Square Park build- Commission will organize the ing, interior remodeling at the Community Building.Its next For two years the red brick project will be replacing the building lay idle until 1922, cupola. when manual training classes Even in its early years, the were begun to be held there. Community Building with- During the 1918 nationwide stood a number of changes. influenza epidemic, the Conarroe believes the Community Building was building was originally used to house a hospital set up erected in 1895 to house the by the Red Cross in first- and second-graders November.Approximately 19 overflowing from the school patients paying S1.50 each, house (built in 1880) at received care at the building Memory Square Park. Al- between November 14 and though the Fischer Carpenter December 14. By January, Shop worked on the earlier 1919, the hospital was. school house, it did not disbanded after twenty-four participate in the red brick Louisville deaths had resulted building's construction, as from the epidemic. stated in a previous feature by Because the Louisville this reporter. School District became a part By 1914,however,the Com- of the Boulder Valley School munity Building became too District and thereupon receiv- crowded so some classes used ed a new school in 1962-63,the the United Methodist Church wooden Memory Square Park building. A new high school building was demolished.The was built on Garfield Street in red brick building became the 1920 to take the pressure off Community Building and still the Memory Square Park remains to house activities for building.(This Garfield Street Louisville persons.