Ever have a nightmare that you’re back in school? Now imagine it’s a good dream—because you’re living in a beautifully updated condo, one that kept all the pretty parts of a historic elementary and ditched the lunchroom food and homework.
Residents’ fight to keep the West Queen Anne Elementary School open amid economic downturn and urban flight landed the neighborhood fixture on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975—the first Seattle school to earn the honor. The final bell rang just six years later. But historian Larry Kreisner says that those efforts helped preserve the building for its second life as a “national model for salvaging surplus schools.”
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