History Trail - Collegeville-Trappe High School

29 E. First Avenue. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on November 11, 1938, for a new Collegeville-Trappe High School to be built under the auspices of the federal government’s Public Works Administration. The above postcard depicts the school as built; in 1953 an addition was built on the right side to match the colonial revival style of the original building. Howard B. Keyser, a 1905 graduate of the Collegeville High School and 1910 Ursinus graduate, was the supervising principal of the newly consolidated school district. Most of the land for the new school was provided by Ursinus College in a bargain sale in which the former Frederick Muhlenberg property, at 151 W. Main Street, was subdivided.