Bruce Hall of the Ruth Hargrove Institute on United Street

TODAY IN KEY WEST HISTORY / July 6, 1958

1958 Congress approved the Navy’s request to transfer the old Navy Commissary building on United Street to the Monroe County School Board. The building was originally constructed for the Ruth Hargrove Institute in 1911 and taken over by the Navy for use as a Navy Hospital during World War I. It became the Navy Commissary during World War II.

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