As the move-in dates for the new housing units at the former Wheatley Elementary School (aka 20th Street School), 2442 N. 20th St., approach, I stopped over to take a peek at the progress.
Wheatley School was built in 1902 – with two additions in the 1960s and another in the early ‘70s – and was designed by Van Ryn & DeGelleke, who drew many MPS plans in the first 20 years of the 20th century.
The school sits in the middle of a long corridor of public schools that, north of the Menomonee Valley, once included Girls Tech/Wells Street Junior High, 18th Street School (razed), McKinley, Brown Street, Wheatley, 21st Street/Gwen T. Jackson, Auer Avenue, Douglas Middle School, Rufus King High School and Pratt Elementary … each just a few blocks north of the next and all on or within a few blocks of 20th Street.
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