Date Constructed: 1926
Address: 546 S 1st Street
Current Building Name: Ahrens Educational Resource Center - since 1990s
Earlier Building Names: Louisville Vocational School - 1926; Theodore Ahrens Trade High School - 1938
Architect: Unknown at this time
Builder: Unknown at this time
Current Status: In use.
Designation (if applicable): Unknown at this time

This building actually isn't very representative of Art Deco architecture except the limestone ornamentation, which is geometric and definitely more modern than earlier period structural ornamentation.

The Ahren's Trade School building is located at 546 S 1st Street. The building sits on the site of the old Male High School. The site was selected in 1915. In 1925 Theodore Ahrens donated $250,000 for a new building, and later added $50,000 for a gymnasium. It was constructed in 1926. In 1930 he gave the Louisville Board of Education an additional gift of $350,000. In all, Ahrens donated over $1-million to the school. The name was changed to Theodore Ahrens Trade High School in 1938 when the facility was enlarged. In October 1962 an expansion plan to increase the school to two and a half acres was began. May 1980 saw the last graduating class of the school and its closing.