page_title: Bowen High School (Chicago)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bowen High School (Chicago) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Bowen High School at 2710 E. 89th Street in Chicago, Illinois by Dwight Perkins, architect, 1910
context_page_description: James H. Bowen High School is a public 4–year high school located in the South Chicago neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Bowen is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district.
  From 1993 until 2011, Bowen was divided into four smaller schools. Today, the smaller schools have been re-consolidated back into one school.
context_section_description: Bowen High School was established in 1882 under the name South Chicago High School in one of the classrooms of the Bowen Elementary School (demolished), which was located at the northwest corner of 93rd Street and Houston Avenue in the then-independent community of South Chicago. Fourteen pupils were given high school-level instruction.  The elementary school and its successor high school were named for Colonel James A. Bowen (1822-1881), the first president of the Calumet and Chicago Canal Dock Company and the man known as "the father of South Chicago".
  The two schools became separate institutions in 1910 when the current building was constructed at the northeast corner of Marquette and 89th Street. It was designed by Dwight Perkins (1867–1941), supervising architect of the Chicago Public School system between 1905 and 1910, and built "on identical plans" as its more famous cousin, Irving Park High School. (opened as Carl Schurz High School  The latter building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The building cost $700,000 and contained about 125 rooms; it was noted for its manual training and domestic science departments. By the 1930s, Bowen's student body had grown to 4,600, due to the great increase in immigrants of Polish and Slavic descent in the South Chicago area.
caption: The 1910 building by Dwight Perkins[5]
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