{"id":5639,"date":"2009-08-18T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:15:56","slug":"oconnor","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connor Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong> 40th &amp; Adams Streets<\/li>\n<li><strong>OPERATION:<\/strong> 1963 &#8211; 1967<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This short-lived elementary school (frame building) was named for Mary O&#8217;Connor, principal at <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/p\/par-park-middle-school\/\">Park School<\/a> for 28 years until her retirement in 1943. Miss O&#8217;Connor died in 1960 at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/local\/jim-mckee-some-forgotten-lincoln-public-schools\/article_d056a03a-440a-5ecf-a9a9-064df5e9375d.html\">Jim McKee<\/a>: <em>&#8220;As you drive around Lincoln, look for the 1963 O\u2019Connor School which still stands, albeit boarded up, as a prefab-looking frame building on the southwest corner of 40th and Adams streets in the corner of a Lincoln park.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1635\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/local\/jim-mckee-some-forgotten-lincoln-public-schools\/article_d056a03a-440a-5ecf-a9a9-064df5e9375d.html\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1635\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1635\" src=\"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019-1024x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019-1536x908.png 1536w, https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/files\/2009\/08\/OConnor-Elementary-2019.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original O&#8217;Conner Elementary building as seen in Google Street View images from 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION: 40th &amp; Adams Streets OPERATION: 1963 &#8211; 1967 This short-lived elementary school (frame building) was named for Mary O&#8217;Connor, principal at Park School for 28 years until her retirement in 1943. Miss O&#8217;Connor died in 1960 at the age of 85. &nbsp; Via Jim McKee: &#8220;As you drive around Lincoln, look for the 1963 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-5639","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6665,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5639\/revisions\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}