A remake of Shakespeare
A remake of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew set in Modern day High School
starring Heather Ledger, Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In this screen capture we can see Michael (David Krumholtz) standing in front
of the main entrance to Padua High (Stadium High)
I was fascinated with the school when I first saw the movie and finally got
to visit the school in Tacoma Wa. my trip to Seattle in Early July
Here is one of the photos I took
Here is part of the Wikipedia entry for Stadium High School
Stadium High
School - Wikipedia
Stadium High School is a 100-year-old high school in
Tacoma, Washington and a historic landmark. It is part of Tacoma Public Schools,
or Tacoma School District No. 10 and is located in the Stadium District, near
downtown Tacoma. The original building burned to a shell while it was still a
partially constructed hotel designed by Hewitt & Hewitt that was being used for
storage. It was reconstructed for use as a school according to designs by
Frederick Heath,[1] and a "bowl" stadium was added.
The main building was constructed by architects Hewitt
and Hewitt[citation needed] for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the
Tacoma Land Company at what was then known as Blackwell Point. Construction
began in 1891 with the intention of building a luxury hotel resembling a French
chateau. The Panic of 1893 however, brought construction to an abrupt halt when
the Northern Pacific was faced with financial disaster. The unfinished building
became a storage facility, with much of the building materials still inside. On
October 11, 1898 the building was gutted by a massive fire. The walls remained
standing and the Northern Pacific began to dismantle the structure removing some
40,000 bricks that would be used to construct still-existing train stations in
Missoula, Montana and Wallace, Idaho.
The Tacoma School District purchased the gutted
building February 19, 1904 with the intent of turning it into a high school. The
redesign and later rennovations were planned by the school's architect Frederick
Heath. It was repaired and renovated into a school.
The reconstructed building opened September 10, 1906 as
Tacoma High School. Seven years later, the name was changed to reference the
adjacent Stadium Bowl. Later additions included a circular lunchroom, an
underground swimming pool, a science and industrial arts complex, a gymnasium,
and a multi-story parking lot structure with tennis courts on the roof.
The stadium, also designed by Frederick Heath, dates
from 1910 and is in a location once known as Old Woman's Gulch. It was
originally much grander than it is today, with a seating capacity of 32,000.
Among those who spoke there were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G.
Harding, William Jennings Bryan, and Billy Sunday
The stadium was originally built in 1909–1910 using
steam shovels and sluicing to move more than 180,000 cubic yards (140,000 m3)
down the edges of the gulch to create a flat playing field of 2.5 acres (10,000
m2). Wooden molds were built to cast concrete for 31 rows of stadium seating
surrounding the playfield.