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This Sanborn fire insurance map, page 222, shows the size of the Midwood School campus along Central Avenue.

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.

As of fall 2012, the Midwood School building is vacant as evidenced by the empty signposts in front of the school.

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…

By June 1983, Midwood School was no more. Residents worked to find a tenant for the empty campus. One such idea was for a neighborhood performing arts center.

Student members of the Midwood Elementary School orchestra pose on the front steps of the school.

Pictured together on the front steps of Midwood Elementary School, the kindergarten class was sponsored by the school Parent Teacher Association. Miss Marion Price was the teacher.