Rose Building To Be Demolished, Baseball Field To Receive Turf

The Shawnee High School Jazz Choir sings “Happy Birthday” to Band Director Christopher Hall before the Dec. 2 Board of Education meeting. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
The Shawnee High School Jazz Choir sings “Happy Birthday” to Band Director Christopher Hall before the Dec. 2 Board of Education meeting. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan

The Rose Garden School was built in Shawnee in 1912 before Woodrow Wilson Elementary was built to the east at 1830 N. Beard in 1928, according to https://sites. rootsweb.com/~okpcgc/schools/ wilson.html.

Now, after 112 years, it has been approved for demolition by the Shawnee Public Schools Board of Education, along with two portable buildings in the Wilson schoolyard. In January of this year, the …