Sumner High School
Sumner High School is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kenneth M Burke, Public domain.
- Type: School
- Description: high school in St. Louis
- Also known as: “Charles Sumner High School”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Antioch Baptist Church and Homer G. Phillips Hospital.
Antioch Baptist Church
Church
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The Antioch Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri is a church long important in the Black community of the Ville neighborhood of North St. Louis. It is located in a Gothic Revival-style brick building at 4213 N. Antioch Baptist Church is situated 510 feet south of Sumner High School.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Residential area
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Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. Homer G. Phillips Hospital is situated 780 feet southeast of Sumner High School.
Shelley House
Museum
Photo: FrancisNancy, CC BY 3.0.
The Shelley House is a historic house at 4600 Labadie Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1906, this duplex was the focus of the 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v. Shelley House is situated 3,300 feet northwest of Sumner High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Academy and Carr Square.
Academy
Neighborhood
Academy/Sherman Park is a neighborhood in North St. Louis, just outside Central West End. The official boundaries of the area are Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on the north, Delmar Boulevard on the south, North Kingshighway Boulevard on the east, and Union Boulevard on the west. Academy is situated 1½ miles west of Sumner High School.
Carr Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
Carr Square is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is bounded by Cass Avenue on the north, Carr Street on the south, North Tucker Boulevard and North 13th Street on the east, and North Jefferson on the west. Carr Square is situated 2½ miles southeast of Sumner High School.
Downtown West
Neighborhood
Downtown West is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is, as the name suggests, a section of downtown that is further inland, west from the banks of the Mississippi River. Downtown West is situated 2½ miles southeast of Sumner High School.
Sumner High School
- Categories: high school and education
- Location: St. Louis, St. Louis Area, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.65949° or 38° 39′ 34″ northLongitude
-90.23887° or 90° 14′ 20″ westElevation
528 feet (161 metres)Open location code
86CFMQ56+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 802117700OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swiss German—“Sumner High School” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sumner High School”
- French: “Charles Sumner High School”
- French: “Sumner High School”
- German: “Charles Sumner High School”
- German: “Sumner High School”
- Hebrew: “תיכון סאמנר”
- Irish: “Ardscoil Sumner”
- Japanese: “サムナー・ハイ・スクール”
- Japanese: “サムナー高等学校”
- Japanese: “チャールズ・サムナー・ハイ・スクール”
- Japanese: “チャールズ・サムナー高等学校”
- Luxembourgish: “Sumner High School”
- Slovenian: “Sumner High School”
- Spanish: “Charles Sumner High School”
- Spanish: “Sumner High School”
- Swedish: “Sumner High School”
- Swiss German: “Charles Sumner High School”
- Swiss German: “Sumner High School”
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