Central High School Gets Restored Windows
Beautiful prairie-style stained glass windows were recently restored under Ciavarella Design's managment.
Our friends over at Ciavarella Design Architects just finished a dynamite historic restoration project. They managed the removal and restoration of the massive stained glass windows at Aberdeen, SD’s historic Central High School building. These window had been covered up for years on the inside probably for heating purposes. As a student, I never saw the sun shine through them. Aberdeen Parks and Recreation now use the building and surround complex for a variety of cultural activities and events. It’s one of the best adaptive reuse examples in Aberdeen. See more pics on Facebook.
Ciavarella Design Architects have offices in Aberdeen and Mitchell. They are responsible for new commercial buildings and houses all over South Dakota. Restoration architecture is one of their specialties. As well as window replacement. This spring, Aberdonians will delight in a new streetscape project, also designed by Ciavarella. Most of the installation was completed in 2010 as the snow fell. We’re all looking forward to benches, plantings, sculptures and lighting. Watch for it!
Oh, and they designed our house too!
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Exterior of the stained glass windows
I am so appreciative of the wonderful photography of the restored windows!! Thank you for sharing! Our Land of Oz Questers was involved in this restoration from the beginning. Over a period of several years, we contributed our annual Garden Walk proceeds to this project. I wrote for and recieved 2 grants. One from Questers International for $6000 and one from SD Questers for $2500 for this project. All in all we donated $18,500 to this project. We are thrilled to see it to completion.
Thanks for commenting, Cynthia! And thanks so much for spearheading this effort. Projects like this are usually very hard to fund, from a city or non profit point of view. It takes real grass-roots efforts to make great things like this happen. Thanks to you! Thanks to Questers. Funny thing was, I was just talking about the Garden Walk today with a participant.