Some photos I took of Woodrow (large) (Dallas, Austin: houses, school district)

[nativeDallasite]

We went to Lakewood on Saturday. Not knowing our way around there or what to look for, I went to something I could find...my old high school's rival, Woodrow Wilson High School. It's a pretty building but I couldn't find much else of interest. The twee little Lakewood houses have sort of been done to death.

[FarNorthDallas]

That is a really impressive looking building. Thanks for posting!

[nativeDallasite]

Originally Posted by FarNorthDallas

That is a really impressive looking building. Thanks for posting!

It is, but all the paint around the windows is in terrible shape; it could use a facelift.

[MaryS80]

I normally prefer b&w, but the color really brings out the details of the building. There aren't many of these schools left, and even fewer are still used.

[BstYet2Be]

Great pictures! Beautiful historical building! Thanks for sharing!

[ladysrodgers]

Really neat pictures - I love the black and white!

[Spree]

Nice pictures - I love the architecture. Woodrow always reminds me of Reidel High from the movie Grease.

>>but all the paint around the windows is in terrible shape; it could use a facelift.<<

Yeah, right after those security cameras are installed

District Misses Deadline For Cameras Again | Articles & Archives | Lakewood (http://www.peoplenewspapers.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publicatio ns%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F7 91&tier=4&id=A18987C166B749CE9FF9E8AC9F2EDE74&AudI D=0C60FF0FEDEB42CAA527EA9D73BBC489 - broken link)

[nativeDallasite]

Originally Posted by Spree

Nice pictures - I love the architecture. Woodrow always reminds me of Reidel High from the movie Grease.

>>but all the paint around the windows is in terrible shape; it could use a facelift.<<

Yeah, right after those security cameras are installed

District Misses Deadline For Cameras Again | Articles & Archives | Lakewood (http://www.peoplenewspapers.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publicatio ns%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F7 91&tier=4&id=A18987C166B749CE9FF9E8AC9F2EDE74&AudI D=0C60FF0FEDEB42CAA527EA9D73BBC489 - broken link)

It's a pretty cool-looking building. I went to Hillcrest which is very dull-looking, though one section of the building was built in the mid-1930s and it's pretty distinctive-looking. It's on the Aberdeen side of the school, though, so most people never see it. It's kinda cool inside in that section; even the floors sound different. The rest of the school was built in the 1950s, I think.

[Lakewooder]

Thanks ND - I wish I had known you were in the area -- but I was rather busy for the last few days (no posting here). Here's another site (pdf) with pictures: http://www.nationaltrust.org/issues/schools/downloads/WoodrowWilson_TX.pdf (broken link)

The windows have to be redone every few years. Several years ago the district was threatening to put in those terrible smoked glass ones which ruined North Dallas, Sunset and Forest/Madison. So that's what really got us on the ball on the historical designations - now we are protected from such atrocities.

[Lakewooder]

Here's more - the school was recently featured in a show at Meadows Museum:

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Excerpt: "Among the most important contributions of Lemmon to 20th-century Texas architecture was his lifelong dedication to the architecture of public education. Lemmon served for more than three decades as the principal architect of the Dallas Independent School District, and the vast majority of the buildings constructed during his tenure are in use to this day. They include superb buildings that reference the English Elizabethan architecture of the Age of Shakespeare (Woodrow Wilson High School), others that are reminders of the importance of the great monasteries of Romanesque Europe for the continuance of European culture (Boude Storey Junior High School), and still others that allow the bracing air of 20th-century "Moderne" into the image of public education (Alex W. Spence Junior High School). Lemmon's important buildings for Port Arthur designed in the 1920s remind us of the Dutch mercantile origins of that small city and of its connections with the rich traditions of learning in 17th-century Holland.

Collectively, these buildings both civilize and enrich the educational experience of teachers and students, creating powerful memories not only of present times, but also of participation in an adventure of education that is a link to the great European traditions. This creation of what might be called "environments of learning" for public school students continued with Lemmon's buildings for Southern Methodist University in Dallas and The University of Texas in Austin"...