The Lawyers Road School was one of six new schools constructed in 1935. This photo from a news clippings shows the building in the final stages of construction.
The growing area around Chatham Estates quickly outgrew the new Lawyers Road school. A school building program in 1941 funded the addition of an auditorium designed by local architect Charles W. Connelly.
Midwood Elementary School closed after the 1982-1983 school year. Concerned residents of Plaza-Midwood worked to find uses for the vacant building. In 1984 the Neighbors for an Improved Community Environment (NICE) solicited ideas from the…