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A local architect is helping remodel the historic Springfield High School into apartments. The building on Mill Street will add more housing to a residential area four blocks north of the city’s downtown.
“This is the last schoolhouse building of this type that’s left here in Springfield,” said Jenna Fribley, an architect at Campfire Collaborative in Springfield, the firm leading designs for the project. “It’s important to try to save it and make it viable again.”
The building at 525 Mill St. was constructed in 1921 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Springfield School District used it as a high school and middle school until the 1960s, according to the historic register application sent to the National Park Service in 2023.
In 1964, the district renovated the building into administrative offices, which remained there until 2017, when the administration moved near City Hall. The district shuttered the old school at that time, and Red Cedar Capital Partners in Eugene bought the building in 2022…