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Image of 50 Hastings Boulevard.
Image of 50 Hastings Boulevard.
Image of 50 Hastings Boulevard.
Image of 50 Hastings Boulevard.
Image of 50 Hastings Boulevard.

Hastings School

Address:50 Hastings Boulevard
Use:Education
Constructed:1960
Other Work:Gymnasium added to the east side of structure (1968)
Architects:Pratt and Lindgren
Ward Macdonald and Partners (1968)

More Information

For many years this was a middle school named Hastings Junior High but is now a French immersion elementary school, grades kindergarten to Grade 8, with 265 students. The building was constructed by Trident Construction at an approximate cost of $331,000 according to plans developed by Pratt and Lindgren Architects.

This two-storey building of mid-brown brick has remarkable integrity and an attractive and uncommon design

Its original 16 classrooms are frankly expressed in a modular approach were the window design identifies each class along a simply double-loaded corridor; the main entrance, also unchanged, alters the symmetry of the academic wing and faces not the street, but the yard

The entire west wall is a colourful mural

The large yard is shared with the present Hastings elementary school

Design Characteristics

Suburb:St. Vital
  • Mid-brown brick facade
  • Modular approach to classroom layout, identified by window placement along a double-loaded corridor
  • The main entrance alters the symmetry of the academic wing and faces the schoolyard
  • Colourful mural covers west wall
  • Schoolyard shared with Hastings elementary school