To Renovate or Rebuild? Tufts University Chooses Both for Historic School

The abandoned Dame School on the Tufts University campus presented an architectural dilemma faced by many colleges and universities evaluating their historic buildings on campus: To Repurpose or rebuild?

Completed in 1909, the Dame School was an attractive and familiar fixture in the community near Boston. But the former elementary school’s interior layout – two floors of classrooms surrounding an enormous auditorium – was unworkable for Tufts’ intended purpose as an office building.

As reprinted from High Profile Magazine, April 2011

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