Norton Elementary School - Norton, MA

Completed in 1977, this 600 student elementary school is still a successful example of sustainable site design.  The site, a former farm that had been sold to the Town as conservation land and a school site, had major Indian prehistory that required archaeological clearance prior to development.

Besides addressing the school program and minimizing impacts to the surrounding development the design also integrated elements of the past history of the site, such as preserving the tile silo of the former farm, preserving elements of town folklore that existed on the site and preserving significant prehistoric archaeological sites found during the site investigation.