This school building, one of dozens by Ittner, stands in a rather desolate stretch of light industrial and decaying older commercial buildings that runs in a strip north of downtown. After a few years in use as the Continuing Education High School, it was abandoned in 1996. In the ten years following, it lost most of its copper cornice and suffered innumerable broken windows as well as a smattering of graffitti.

The building has recently been sold to local developers who plan to turn it into 79 apartments. The asphalt covering the grounds will be removed and replaced with a more park-like setting.

Construction was underway in March 2007, including replication of the building's lost cornice, new windows, and brick and finish repairs.

Photographs of the building's pre-renovation interior conditions are available at Ecology of Absence.

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