Museum for East Texas Culture

	Palestine High School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Location	400 Micheaux Ave., Palestine, Texas
Coordinates	31°45′29″N 95°37′38″W / 31.75806°N 95.62722°W
Built	1915
Architect	Flynt,A.W.; Sanguinet & Staats
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobean-Tudor
NRHP reference No.	86002295
RTHL No.	8790
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 24, 1986
Designated RTHL	1986

The Museum for East Texas Culture is a museum in Reagan Park in Palestine, Texas.

The building was built in 1915 as Palestine High School.^[1] It opened in 1916 and graduated its first class in 1917. In 1939 it became a junior high school, and was named the Reagan School, after John H. Reagan, in 1955. It became an elementary school in 1966 and closed in 1976. It opened as the current museum in 1982.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as "Palestine High School" in 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "The Museum in Reagan Park". Palestine, Texas: Museum for East Texas Culture. Retrieved 2012-03-13.

External links

Museum for East Texas Culture — official site

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] "The Museum in Reagan Park". Palestine, Texas: Museum for East Texas Culture. Retrieved 2012-03-13.

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