Second Ward High School Gymnasium Visioning Session

Second Ward High School Gymnasium Visioning Session

AgendaIntroductions

Project IntroductionBuilding Tour

(Break)General DiscussionGroup Discussions

Summary + Conclusion

Brooklyn - 1948

SECOND WARD GYMNASIUM

Brooklyn Neighborhood

Brooklyn - 1954

Current Second Ward

Aerial Photography

Historical Significance of Second Ward Gymnasium

Stewart GrayHistoric Landmarks Commission

Second Ward High School

1) The Second Ward High School Gymnasium is the only surviving building from the campus of Second Ward High School, the first public high school for African-Americans in Charlotte, N.C.

Second Ward High School

Second Ward High School

2) The Second Ward High School was the locale for sporting and non-sporting events that contributed mightily to the cultural milieu of Second Ward High School.

The Tigers Basketball Team

Scenes from 1969

3) The Second Ward High School was designed by A. G. Odell, Jr., Charlotte's principal proponent and practitioner of Modernist style architecture in Charlotte in the mid-twentieth century.

ArchitectA.G Odell, Jr.

Second Ward High School opened in 1923 in the Brooklyn or Second Ward neighborhood as Charlotte's first public high school for African Americans

Second Ward High School

The 1950 National Honor Society

Second Ward High School

Second Ward Gymnasium

Second Ward Gymnasium

The Second Ward High School Gym is arguably the finest and best preserved post-WWII historic school building in Charlotte.

Second Ward Gymnasium

Brooklyn Neighborhood

Arthur GriffinSecond Ward High School

National Alumni Foundation

Brooklyn Neighborhood

Brooklyn Village Conceptual Development Plans

Brooklyn Village

SECOND WARD GYMNASIUM

Brooklyn Village

SECOND WARD GYMNASIUM

Charrette Goals

Second Ward High School Gymnasium Visioning Session