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Lee School (Leesburg, Florida)

school building in Florida, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6514963 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lee School (also known as the Lee Adult Education Center) is an historic school in Leesburg, Florida, United States. It is located at 207 North Lee Street. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995, and delisted in 2025. As of 2008, the Lee School is up for sale, posted by the Lake County School District.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lee School (Leesburg, Florida)” as school building in Florida, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2025, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where School, Leesburg and Florida can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school building in Florida, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6514963. Authority coordinates are 28.813, -81.881. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2025 and 2008.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lee School (Leesburg, Florida)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lee School (Leesburg, Florida) primary sources, Lee School (Leesburg, Florida) archive and School research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lee School (Leesburg, Florida)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lee School (Leesburg, Florida)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.