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Bright corridors with colorful floors lead to classrooms which still contain many features that were in vogue when Harlan was built in the early 1930s. The building was designed as a prototype for nearby P.S. du Pont, then a secondary school and the gemstone of the Wilmington Public Schools system.

   
   
 

Restored to the art room (above) is a paneled anteroom that was used as a cloak room, an original classroom feature. More recently, this area was divided into two classrooms and a storage closet. Students (below) participate in a physical education class in an enlarged gymnasium. Harlan originally had two gyms, a feature regarded as necessary when boys and girls engaged in such activity in separate groups. Elimination of one allows for extra space for classes and spectators as well as some of the room necessary to enlarge the 'media center'.

 
   
 
Posted on September 3, 2003

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