Downing Street School - Worcester MA
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N 42° 15.229 W 071° 49.494
19T E 266971 N 4681822
Built in 1891 as a Worcester Public School, today it is the Triana Center for the Arts for Clark University
Waymark Code: WMMVQG
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 11/10/2014
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William R Forbush designed this school, as well as the Abbott Street School in Worcester. The building was constructed by WF Dearborn at a cost of $35,000.
The school is primarily of brick construction with yellow brick trim. The school is basically a rectangular structure with a center semi-circle tower bay serving as the entrance. The actual doors flank the circular tower with yellow brick arch trim.
From the website:
The University's thriving arts programs makes creative use of this historic building and neighborhood landmark. In May 2001, the University broke ground on the project, which encompassed the renovation of a 19th-century Romanesque Revival building—the former Downing Street School—and construction of a new 194-seat recital/lecture/screening hall.
With the opening of the Traina Center, the University has significantly improved and expanded its arts facilities with more centralized, better-equipped spaces for study, creation, performance and presentation of work. The original Downing Street School space now features an arts library and resource center; studios for design, painting, drawing and printmaking; darkrooms for photography; a gallery for exhibition of professional and student work; seminar rooms; high-tech classrooms; and a multimedia arts center. The building's new addition, Razzo Hall, will be used regularly for recitals, screenings, lectures and other programs.
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