Crumpler has received a Flintridge foundation award, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grant, and the Fleishacker Foundation, fellowship eureka award. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is featured in the permanent collections of the Oakland museum of California the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute, Mills Collegeĭewey Crumpler (born 1949) is an American painter and an associate professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. The entry is distinguished by a two story, five bay portico supported by six Ionic columns and crowned by a Chippendale patterned balustrade. It features a distinctive tower that contains an 1828 bell from an earlier building. It is a two story, Georgian Revival style brick building in a 'U' shaped plan. It was built originally in 1927, damaged by fire in 1937 and reconstructed in 1938. It was originally a military academy and in 1893 it became a public school.Īs per Wikipedia: 'Mexico Academy and Central School is a historic school building located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. It's one of the oldest schools in its class in the state. The Mexico Academy was originally established in 1826, as the 'Rensselaer Oswego Academy.'The name was changed May 19, 1845. One of the most outstanding buildings of our Town of Mexico is the Mexico High School. Marble staircase at entrance (Mascot- Mexico Tigers) The school district has an enrollment of 2,000+ students Pre-K - 12.

The Mexico Academy and Central School District consists of five school buildings: Mexico High School, Mexico Middle School, Mexico Elementary, New Haven Elementary, and Palermo Elementary. We found that the school district of Mexico, New York would meet those needs.

Our children were preschoolers at the time so we wanted to move to an area where the school district would support our educational values, and at the same time offer sufficient activities that would nurture their overall growth. One consideration of our move was the school district. Moving to this area in 1974 was interesting for us. The formal name of the school district is Mexico Academy and Central School District otherwise known as MACS. This is the Mexico High School Academy at Mexico, New York. November is New York State History Month so thought I would write about some of our local history of Mexico, New York.

Holland township school mural