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More Seats: Secondary Seats

More Seats: Secondary Seats

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At a November 5 meeting of Arlington Public Schools’ Secondary Seats Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) group, a wide variety of proposals for “more seats” for students were released for community input. Three of the sites — Reed School, Wilson School and Stratford School — are all important historic community buildings having served the educational needs of Arlington residents for generations. The Stratford School is on the National Register; Reed School just underwent a major renovation in which the original school…

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Back to School:
Great New Uses
for Old Schools

Back to School:
Great New Uses
for Old Schools

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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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