Prentice School

On this site stood the George D. Prentice School, which was one of nineteen in Louisville that were commandeered for use as hospitals during Civil War. Worden Pope, an early Louisville civic and political leader, built his home here ca. 1830. It housed the Kentucky School of Medicine from 1887-1914 and later the Stevens School for Retarded Children.

Originally erected in 1962; text revised, marker recast in 1980.

Original text read:

This school building and 18 others were commandeered for use as Union hospitals from Nov. 1862 to March 1864. During this period pupils were taught in rented quarters and curch basements. Firve other schools later known as Margaret Merker, Paul Dunbar, George W. Morris, Monsarrat and the School for the Blind, still stood in 1962.