Built in 1910, School No. 16 presented a two-fold challenge – modernizing and expanding the facility while preserving historic features, and unifying the building’s circulation and image. When school re-opened in September 2018, students and staff were welcomed to a functional facility, with much of its original beauty intact and all the features of a new 21st century school.

In one of the school’s original classrooms, wood cubbies with “garage” doors, chalkboards and rails were preserved; while the wood transom doors, metal ceilings, woodwork, columns, cornice, entrance, bell tower and stained glass windows were restored. All classrooms were renovated, replacement windows designed to match the originals, and wood grain metal security doors hung. The original/obsolete gym and loading dock, was converted into a library, and an addition built for the new gym with stage, food services, along with another 2-classroom addition for Pre-K. New wall tiles, sprinkler system and accessibility ramps were added to unify all interior finishes to ‘feel’ like one building.