Keysor Elementary School

When Kirkwood voters passed a $250,000 bond issue in 1929 — expanding the Meacham Park and Henry Hough schools and funding a junior high and two new elementaries — the district hired the most famous school architect in America, and he was local. William B. Ittner, then near the end of his career, had already given Kirkwood the Pitman School in 1914; Keysor opened in September 1930 as his second school in the city. It was named for W. W. Keysor. Nearly a century on, Keysor still operates as a Kirkwood School District elementary — one of the district's oldest buildings in continuous classroom use.