Hillbrook School expanded its high school presence by opening the renovated three-story Moir Building at 227 N. First St. in downtown San Jose. The 1894 brick-and-sandstone structure features a massive skylight, bay windows, and originally functioned as a work-live building and later a hotel and law office. The project converted two historic, previously vacant buildings totaling about 70,000 square feet into classrooms. The renovation required millions of dollars. The school's downtown location is intended to integrate urban resources into learning, using the surrounding city and St. James Park as extensions of the classroom.
I'm glad that instead of building something brand new which it could have done pretty much anywhere Hillbrook decided to bring its students to downtown San Jose and specifically to two historic but vacant buildings near St. James Park that required millions of dollars of renovation. That was a very intentional decision to have a school in downtown San Jose and have this idea of the city as a classroom, Head of School Mark Silver said.
The three-story brick-and-sandstone Moir building at 227 N. First St. is a real beauty from 1894, with a massive skylight that rains sunshine into its interior and charming bay windows. It was one of the original work-live buildings downtown, with tenants who lived on the upper floors running businesses out of the storefronts on the ground floor. It served as a hotel for most of its life and, most recently, housed the offices of the Robinson & Wood law firm.
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