Due to rapidly increasing enrollment it was found that the old Logan School was going to be inadequate, therefore construction of a new building, one block West, at 17th St, N. between Girard and Fremont Avenues was begun in 1895.
The “new” second North High building opened its doors on September 29, 1896 to students grades eight through twelve. This new school had thirteen class rooms, eight recitation rooms, an assembly hall that seated 900, a library, laboratories, shops, and drawing rooms.
Soon after its opening additions were made in 1908 and 1910, to the south side for manual training rooms and to the north side for regular classrooms.
With the additions to the 1896 structure, the building looked like this, until June of 1913.