Elementary School Archives A-F: Field

Official Name: Field Elementary School

Year Opened: 1915

Field Elementary is named for Emmet Field, a Crescent Hill resident and Jefferson County judge. The school board purchased the land from heirs to the Crabb estate. Field was the first school in Louisville built on a one-story floor plan. Additional land was purchased from the adjacent Louisville Water Company. Field opened one of the first official elementary school libraries in the Louisville schools in 1961, spurred by Emily Nash, mother of Field student and future author Alanna Nash. Field was renovated and an addition was built in 1970. The school board considered closing Field in the late 1990's but community support for the school and a reevaluation of the physical plant kept the school open.