Community-Centered Schools Success Stories
Franklin High School
Franklin High School in Seattle,
Washington, thrives as an exceptional
historic neighborhood school.
Preservation success stories are crucial tools for Americans trying to keep historic schools as vital parts of their communities. Supported in part by the National Center for Preservation Training and Technology, the Trust has compiled the following examples, showing how people across the country preserved these architectural landmarks, held onto neighborhood anchors, and created uniquely enriching educational settings.
These stories concisely summarize information that architects, contractors, and school administrators have shared with the Trust; they also illustrate responses to the most important challenges facing the continued use of historic schools as educational facilities. Most important, the contact information provided in each success story gives school facility decision makers and neighborhood preservationists the opportunity to talk directly with experts who have overcome the most vexing problems in school rehabilitation. Each of the following illustrated success stories describes the preservation and/or rehabilitation of one or more historic neighborhood schools.
