This Is What Missouri Schools Looked Like In The Early 1900s. Wow.

This early medical school is much different than you might find today.

Constructed in 1908 as Missouri State University’s first building, Carrington Hall was later named in honor of William T. Carrington, the first president of the University.

The cornerstone for Brookings (then University) Hall at Washington University was laid on November 3, 1900, and construction was completed in 1902. In 1904, it was leased to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, who used it as the Administration Building for the World’s Fair. It then became the university’s administrative center, and was known for many years as University Hall. It officially became Brookings Hall in 1928.

The first House Springs School was built before 1876, and the next school building was constructed on land which was donated around 1900. It was a one-room school that eventually closed in 1948.

Now called the McKinley Classical Leadership Academy, it is a public high school for gifted and talented students in St. Louis that is part of the St. Louis Public Schools. It first opened in 1904 as the first comprehensive public high school in south St. Louis.

The Missouri School of Journalism at University of Missouri in Columbia is the oldest formal journalism school in the country. It was founded in 1908 by Walter Williams, and is considered one of the top journalism schools in the world.

This school operated between 1857 -1978 as a brick and mortar building, but is now a distance learning/online school.

The Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM) was founded in 1870 as the first technological institution west of the Mississippi, and one of the first in the nation. Originally the curriculum was focused on the state's mining industry and its immediate technological needs, but by the end of the 1920s, the program had grown to include courses of study not only in mining, but also in civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering as well as chemistry, metallurgy, mathematics, physics, and geology.

The school was a Southeast Missouri Farms school.

Located on the historic brick Main Street, the Old Mark Twain School was built in 1910. The Poplar Bluff Museum was started in 1988.

Built in 1910, the building was recently listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The high school for girls, located at 5600 Main Street, was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

The Loretto is a multipurpose venue in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City. It was adapted from a former girls' academy known as Loretto Academy, dedicated in 1904 as a "boarding and day school for girls."

This former school now operates as a museum.