1950–1951, N. W. Overstreet and Associates, with Hearon and McCleskey. 526 Forrest St.
This school’s two-story circular rotunda with vertical fins rising through horizontal concrete canopies creates a dramatic entrance and a pivot point for the splayed classroom wings, which respond to the V-shaped site. The monolithic concrete building is veneered with tan brick, marking a radical departure from Overstreet and Town’s concrete schools of the 1930s. The mushroom column and uplighting in the lobby’s terrazzo-filled rotunda create a sophisticated futuristic note. The school contains a seven-hundred-seat auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, library, shop, and music and art rooms.