Travels and Meditations On Our Built Environments From California's Capital City, Sacramento

Sunday, October 7, 2012

School of Design

My wife and I sauntered off today to the Elk Grove Pumpkin Festival, stopping first to tour the Elk Grove Historical Society's heritage park. Next door is this renovation-in-progress, the historical old home of  the 1884 Reese School.

I add it here because of the classical entrance. They obviously added this touch to say: "Enter here a place of learning, a very important place."



Contrast this with today's schools, which seem designed by the same companies that do prisons.