Archives Closed Schools G-J: Johnston School

Other Name: J. Stoddard Johnston School

Last Address: 2301 Bradley Avenue

Year Opened: 1914

Year Closed: 1980

The school was named for J. Stoddard Johnston, a local historian and associate editor of the Courier-Journal.  The school offered an open-air class from 1916 to 1918.  The school's original address was Flat Lick Road and Atwood (Street).  In 1927 Flat Lick was renamed Bradley Avenue.  Additions were constructed to the school in 1920 and 1933.  The school was sold to the University of Louisville in 1981.  The building is a Beaux Arts structure.  In 2008 U of L announced plans to convert the building into married student housing. The school later became one of the campuses of the Family Scholar House, supporting single parents working to obtain degrees.