Oakenwald School
| Address: | 666 Oakenwald Avenue |
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| Current Use: | Educational |
| Original Use: | Educational |
| Constructed: | 1953 |
| Other Work: | Additions in 1958, 1967, and 1996 |
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Design Characteristics
| Neighbourhood: | Fort Garry, Point Road |
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- Only ten rooms including an office made up the first Oakenwald School in 1953 but the next seven classrooms and a modest multi-use room were already on the plans and were required to be built in 1958 as the community flourished
- Together these formed the essential appearance of the present Oakenwald elementary school; this building is the same plan as its neighbour, École Crane School
- The 1953 block established an L shape on the southwest corner and fixed the main entrance, with the 1958 addition continuing the straight line north along Oakenwald Ave.; a gym was added on the rear in 1967 and another section on the east side was added later as well
- The school is not large but it spreads long down the street and to the rear in quintessential double-loaded corridors; the original expansive glass block windows have not survived but the windows replacing them are quite large and numerous; the lower walls and end walls are faced with red brick which was repeated in the gym addition
- The school is attractive, well landscaped and well maintained