Rapid City High School, Educational building in Rapid City, United States.

Rapid City High School is a four-story, steel-framed Beaux-Arts building on a concrete foundation at 601 Columbus Street. Its ground floor is clad in Kasota limestone, the upper floors are red brick with limestone dentils, and a metal cornice sits below the flat roof's parapet. The projecting Columbus Street entrance, reached by concrete stairs, has the school's name engraved above it; two courtyards separate the wings.

The building was designed in 1923 by the architectural firm Perkins & McWayne, incorporating classical Beaux-Arts principles into its structure. It emerged as part of Rapid City's educational expansion during the early 20th century.

The school's name changed with its role: it became Coolidge High School after Calvin Coolidge used the 1913 building as his summer offices in 1927, then Dakota Junior High and Dakota Middle School, before a city-wide vote restored Rapid City High School. Since 2011 the 1937 auditorium, seating 830 in its Historic Theater, has housed the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City, base of the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra and Black Hills Community Theatre.

The building sits near downtown Rapid City and is reachable by car or public transit. Visitors should know this is an active school campus where access may be limited during school hours.

The 1923 building is the last surviving classroom block of a former school complex: Washington Elementary burned in 1970 and was demolished with the damaged Coolidge Building in 1971. The Coolidge Building had served as Calvin Coolidge's "Summer White House" in 1927, where he wrote his "I do not choose to run" speech.