Brookville High School
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Northside Elementary School (Brookville High School)
1938–1939, Hunter and Caldwell. 280 Church St.
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(William E. Fischer, Jr.) -
(William E. Fischer, Jr.)
When built in the late 1930s, this red brick school incorporated such colonial features as a bridged chimney, a square clock tower with cupola, and a broken pediment at the entrance. This comfortable and reassuring design fit into the context of the late-nineteenth-century housing surrounding it on the hilly site. Hunter and Caldwell's successor firm, Hayes Large Architects, was asked, c. 1999, to design a school to replace this one, but having learned the lessons of the Main Street project, they and the school board decided to rehabilitate this structure, rather than demolish and build anew.
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Lu Donnelly et al., "Northside Elementary School (Brookville High School)", [Brookville, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-JE3.
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Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 464-464.
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