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Back to School: Great Additions, Great Lessons

Back to School: Great Additions, Great Lessons

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. Yesterday, we highlighted some of Arlington’s best-designed school buildings, spanning different decades. Today we are looking at successful school expansions that respect the original building while meeting the needs of our expanding school age population. All of these schools, most of which originally date to the 1950s — the period of…

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Back to School: Great Buildings, Great Stories

Back to School: Great Buildings, Great Stories

Preservation Arlington celebrates the start of a return to the school year with a look at one of the most important buildings types in our community — the school house. Like other civic structures, school buildings are physical manifestations of a community’s strong commitment to government, community health and welfare, and education–as well as dedication to the future. Over the years Arlington has had a wide range of school building types — in many styles and sizes. As our population…

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