The Library of Congress’s American Memory Collection has a number of photos (unfortunately not high-resolution) of Schenectady’s Grout Park School. When it opened, it was a marvel of modernism, designed by the famous architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed Idlewild Airport (you now know it as LaGuardia), the Sears Tower, Lever House and much, much more. These pictures are from 1954, just a year or so after the school opened.
Compared to the other old schools we’ve seen, this place must have been a wonder of clean corridors and natural light.
Looking at these old photos sure brought back memories long buried. When Grout Park opened I was in the first Kindergarten class ever…wonderful school fond memories. My two children also attended Grout Park a few years before we moved to Scotia…was a great school!!! Susan Beaton Coville