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Wooden schoolhouse not shown
From the Bicentennial Reflections (1846 - 1976) book about the history of the DM School System:
One of these districts was the Capitol Park School System which was organized April 4, 1874. It was the
area in and around Union Park and Grand View College, to give a general geographical location. Its property
consisted of the Capitol Park High School which is still retained in the old part of the present Wallace
School at E. 13th and Polk (now Washington). The high school was located on the top floor of the building.
This building is pictured below. Also in the Capitol Park School System were these units: Whittier School at
E. 14th and Washington; Grand View School at E. 9th and Hull; (Cattell) and Logan School E. 17th and
Garfield as well as a WOODEN SCHOOL known as Pleasant Corner.
Not shown in the photo is a wooden school building addition on the north. That structure is most likely the Pleasant Corner school which would have been about 7 years old when the Capital Park district merged with DM. Pleasant Corner was near Union Park.
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