The Napier High School in Hazard, Kentucky opened in 1953 and remained in use until 2005. In only a few short years, the property has become battered and beaten, and sports a trashed interior and a very leaky roof.
History
Located in Hazard, Kentucky, the M.C. Napier High School opened in 1953 along the banks of the North Fork Kentucky River in the Hazard Independent School District.(1) The Sherman Neace Athletic Center was later constructed in front of the school. Napier operated until 1997, when it, along with Dilce Combs High School, were consolidated to form the Perry County Central High School.
The property was later used as a county alternative school, although it closed at the end of the 2005 school year.(1) In mid-July 2007, the school was auctioned off.
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Sources
- Ritchie, Cris. “M.C. Napier property to go on auction block.” Hazard Herald 18 July 2007. 4 Jan. 2009 Article.
Your facts are mistaken. Mc Napier gradueated its last class in May of 1995. As did Dilce Combs. The consolidated highschool began its first classes that fall.
i think who ever decides to buy the old school should use it for a remember site for asll those that attended the school i went there an so did my mother an we loved the school
If they are not going to use it, tear it down, reuse the bricks to build something. Don’t let it stand abandoned, or abused .
M. C. Napier opened in the fall of 1952. My mother started teaching there that first year. I still have her yearbook from that year. She continued there until 1977.
I attended the MCNapierHight School and graduated in 1969. I really hate to see the school that i loved attending and still love the memories of the 4 years i went there and graduated in 1969. To see that it has fallen into such disrepair . Does anyone know what is going to be done with the school? I would like to be hear from any of my class mates that i attended during those 4 years… Mona Young , Carter Wayne Brewer, Linda Day, Bertha Day , and any others that i attended classes with…
i was among the last graduating class of M.C. Napier would love to get up with some school mates if anyone knows how i can get my hands on a yearbook i would be most appreciative,,that school was a blast i hate seeing it just sit there like it is they could use if for something or preserve it considering it was a big time landmark