Hawthorne Elementary School, Elmhurst, III.

摘要

At 121 years, Hawthorne School is the oldest elementary school building in the Elmhurst, 111., school district and a source of pride for the community. Unfortunately, decades of modifications and short-sighted planning had rendered it dysfunctional in terms of modern educational delivery. At the same time, increasing enrollment was leading to overcrowd-rning, with the result that the library, for example, had to be converted into classrooms and moved into a mobile unit.