Bancroft

Located at:  1315 E. 38th Street
Minneapolis 7, Minnesota

Bancroft Elementary School, 2006

The Bancroft neighborhood is located south of Powderhorn Lake, between 38th Street East to the north and 42nd Street East to the south, and between Chicago Avenue on the west and Cedar Avenue  on the east.  The neighborhood is named for the Bancroft  elementary school, which was named for George Bancroft, an American historian born in 1800.  The Bancroft neighborhood consists mostly of single-family houses built before 1940.  The neighborhood also has some commercial development along Bloomington Avenue and 38th Street.

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George Bancroft 1800 - 1891
Bancroft in his office (c. 1889)
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Bancroft Community School, one of the oldest school buildings in the Minneapolis School District still operating,
was built in 1912, with an addition in 1920.
Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level.  During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845.  Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.


                                                                     
                         School's main entrance                                                             Close-up view of name of school                  


~ Sixth Grade ~
 Graduation, 1956
Does anyone have the Sixth Grade Graduation photo that can be scanned and displayed below?
If so, please email the webmaster for details.



No, this isn't the entire class!


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Source:  Unknown at this time.  If you can identify any of the students' last names indicated by the underscoring, or if there are errors, please contact the webmaster.


Until a graduation photo becomes available, here is the beginning of an album of Bancroft alumni.

 
BANCROFT ALBUM

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