Pierre Laclede School
A two-story brick school built to William Ittner's standard bisymmetrical plan: a broad front with two matching entrances set between tall banks of classroom windows, and two classroom wings running back perpendicular at each end. Ornament concentrates on the center block — Georgian Revival dress with restrained classical trim at the paired doorways — while the flanking wings are plainer, their long window ranks nearly unbroken. Among the smaller details are glazed doors set within the window banks.
Pierre Laclede School was built in 1913 and opened in 1914 to designs by William B. Ittner. It is named for Pierre Laclede, the French fur trader who founded St. Louis in 1764, and was at least the second St. Louis public school to carry the name — the first stood downtown at Sixth and Poplar, an older and plainer building of the kind Ittner's schools were then replacing. The Kennerly Avenue school has operated continuously as a neighborhood school and, in 2017, was renamed the Pierre Laclede Junior Career Academy.
