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Overview

This school was named for the German-American pioneer Henry Roeder(1824-1902), who discovered significant coal deposits in present-day Bellingham in the 1850s, and also founded the city's first lumber mill that made money selling timber to settlers in Victoria, BC. Built in 1908, the Roeder School functioned as an elementary school until 1927, when it became a junior high school, but eventually switched back to primary education. At some point, when elementary school children dwindled in numbers, the Bellingham School District placed administration offices here. In 2016, the building exclusively housed administration offices.

Building Notes

Night school classes began at the Roeder School in 1913. The School Board Journal indicated in its 11/1913 issue: ""The school is open to all residents of the city and offers instruction in domestic science, manual training and other subjects." (See School Board Journal, vol. XLVII, no. 5, 11/1913, p. 45.)

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