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Lincoln School Recycled as Multigenerational Learning Center
Cedar Rapids Lincoln School, built in 1910 and closed in 1974, is repurposed by Kirkwood Community College as a multigenerational learning hub. It hosts child care, senior meals, high school completion, OAK projects, Right-To-Read tutors, adult furniture upholstery, KEY vocational programs, WIN, and migrant citizenship classes, with over 5 000 participants in 1975 76 and 30 staff.
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Cedar Rapids
Lincoln
Kirkwood Community College
Eighteenth Avenue
Ninth Street
Kirkwood
Cedar Rapids Community School
OAK
Hawkeye Area Community Action Project
HACAP
Mamie Culp
Patricia Lane
Helen Barkier
Thirty-first Street
Jon Wrolstad
Cherry Hill Road
Bill Perkins
Amber Jack Drive
Hiawatha
Tanya Hoover
Third Avenue SE