Showing posts with label modernization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modernization. Show all posts

Under no conditions would the School District consider demolishing or destroying the Ronald School

Thursday, January 14, 2010


by Craig Degginger
Shoreline School District Public Information Officer

Under no conditions would the District consider demolishing or destroying the Ronald School building in the process of replacing Shorewood High School. It is a “landmark” building, with great educational significance to our community.


• Current architectural plans incorporate the historic Ronald School building into the Shorewood design - honoring, preserving and restoring the original school building, while bringing the unreinforced brick masonry building up to code and making it a safe structure for community/student use.

• Current Shorewood plans propose sharing the restored Ronald School building with the Shoreline Historical Museum through a legal lease agreement, incorporating display cases in the new school’s performing arts center for Museum exhibits and community access.

• Conversations between the District, the Museum, and the City of Shoreline are continuing and additional alternatives are being explored, including, but not limited to:

  1. Option to acquire property adjacent to the Shorewood site as part of an alternative solution for the Ronald School and Museum.
  2. Option for the District to move the Ronald School building to an adjacent site.
  3. Option for the Museum to move to another Shoreline site, including one option that would minimize or eliminate the need for the Museum to pay rent.
Additional information is available on the school district website.

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Ronald School building and Shorewood High School planning #1

Wednesday, January 6, 2010


As planning continues for the modernization/replacement of Shorewood High School, the Shoreline School District has been gathering important facts regarding the Ronald School building. This information provides our community with the background necessary to consider a variety of options with respect to the future of the Ronald School building and its current tenant, the Shoreline Historical Museum. 
 The District recognizes the value of the Museum in our community and encourages all stakeholders to share in the problem solving around this issue. The District has held several meetings with representatives from the Shoreline Historical Museum and the City of Shoreline to reach a resolution agreeable to all parties involved.


What are the current plans for the historic Ronald School building?


Ronald School was originally constructed as a four-room schoolhouse in 1912 and later expanded to its current eight-classroom configuration in 1926. It was used for school purposes for almost 60 years, until 1971. The School District has allowed it to be used by the Shoreline Historical Museum since 1976. It is currently a City of Shoreline landmark structure.

The School Board has selected preferred conceptual designs for both Shorewood and Shorecrest High Schools. At Shorewood, the conceptual design incorporates the historic Ronald School in a meaningful way into the new school, and at the same time bridging the past history of Shoreline with the new school building by proposing to share the space with the Shoreline Historical Museum.

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