{"id":3778,"date":"2009-11-18T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:31:20","slug":"a-case-of-the-human-condition-birmingham-high-school-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-birmingham-high-school-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaholm: My Old High School — It’s Not Stuck in the Twentieth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple dozen of us took a tour of Birmingham High School, aka Seaholm High, during our reunion weekend in October.<\/p>\n

It looks like quite of few additions have been made to the building. I thought the designers did quite a good job of being faithful to the Fifties architecture. And… I think the original design has held up beautifully. Does anyone know the name of the architect? I hear he also designed the First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, which is also looking pretty good these days.<\/p>\n

The only jarring element — those crazy block floor tiles. The building is attractive and lively enough without the hokey sprucing up.<\/p>\n

Here are a bunch of pix I took. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

(And thanks for your patience, all you non-Birmingham folks out there. I’ll be getting on with other topics soon . . . )<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, read more about our class at “It’s Us!”\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seaholm High School, Birmingham, Michigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"On<\/a>
On the right -- an addition to the front of the building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"seaholm-campus-new-courtyard\"<\/a><\/div>\n

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\"A<\/a>
A tree now grows in front of what used to be the art room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The old math wing is now used by a school for Japanese culture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"I<\/a>
I like the new windowed hall, but not the hodge-podge tile on the floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The little theater looked different. Did they do something to the walls?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"high-school-reunion\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"high-school-hall\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"1950-midcentury-modern-architecture\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The best part was being there with so many people I remember so fondly from BHS. Go Maples! Photos by B.F. Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A couple dozen of us took a tour of Birmingham High School, aka Seaholm High, during our reunion weekend in October. It looks like quite of few additions have been made to the building. I thought the designers did quite a good job of being faithful to the Fifties architecture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[470,252,254,453],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-architecture","tag-birmingham-michigan-high-school","tag-high-school-reunion","tag-seaholm-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}