Archives Closed Schools G-J: Greathouse Elementary School

Other Name: Greathouse/Shryock Elementary School; Greathouse School; Tommie A. Greathouse Elementary School

Last Address: 3930 Grandview Avenue

Year Opened: 1912

Year Closed: 1979

This school was named for Miss Tommie Greathouse, the first teacher, then a principal of the school.  Formerly a private school which opened in 1877, it became a public school around the time it adopted the Greathouse name in 1912.  In 1888 it was located at the triangle between Shelbyville Road and Frankfort Avenue in St. Matthews.  It moved to Shelbyville Road across from Browns Lane in 1912 when its name became Greathouse.  This location was later sold to the Eline Realty Company when the school moved to Grandview Avenue in 1939.  The Greathouse School was extensively damaged by fire in 1971 and was repaired and renovated.  In 1977 Greathouse became a traditional school.  Greathouse closed two years later.  In 1980 Shryock Elementary was renamed Greathouse/Shryock Traditional Elementary School and used the existing Shryock building on Browns Lane.  The last Greathouse school building is now owned by the city of St. Matthews and houses the city hall, police department, and the St. Matthews/Eline branch of the Louisville Free Public Library.