Thursday, January 19, 2023 – 5:30pm
by: Louisa Hufstader

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2023/01/19/tisbury-school-demolition-education-earlier-era

Demolition inside the Tisbury School has cleared away nearly a century’s worth of accumulated renovations, revealing the original interior of a town landmark built during the depths of the Great Depression.

The 1929 school’s top level now stands open from end to end, flooded with light from banks of windows beneath a ceiling that vaults more than 15 feet from the rubble-carpeted floor. One side of the third floor is slated to become classrooms, while the media center will stretch along a windowed wall on the other side.

But this week, only structural supports and a soon-to-be-removed brick ventilator broke the sweep of space, with an open section of exterior wall providing a dizzying, gull’s-eye view of the campus below.

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