MRHS 2.0
My alma mater, Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, was demolished this summer. They’re building a new one on the same site, to be finished in time for the 2007/2008 school year. During the upcoming year the students will be attending my former junior high, Olympic, over on North Hill. (Here’s a tip for you relocated kids: you won’t be able to sneak across the street for a smoke between classes at Olympic, since there’s houses over there, but you can go down the hill behind the track and the teachers will never know what you’re up to. Or so I’ve heard.)
I snuck in and snapped a couple of photos of the construction last night, before some crabby guy came out of a trailer and told me “it’s a construction site, that’s why there are KEEP OUT signs here!” He closed the gate after we left, which was probably even more effective than those cute signs.
Here are the construction photos …
And here’s a photo of the planned new school …
(Click the photo for more info from the architects who designed the new version.)
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