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Back to School:
Great New Uses
for Old Schools

Back to School:
Great New Uses
for Old Schools

Preservation Arlington celebrates the return to the school year with a four-day series looking at one of the most important buildings types in our community — the school house. In our first post, we highlighted some of Arlington’s best-designed school buildings, spanning different decades. Yesterday, we examined successful school expansions that respect the original building while meeting the needs of a growing school-age population. Today, we are focusing on schools that have been given new uses and remain important civic…

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Preservation Arlington remembers when the Hecht’s department store in Ballston (at the former Parkington Shopping Center) carried seasonal displays for everyone to anticipate and enjoy. Photo courtesy of ©Lloyd Wolf. All rights reserved.