Places

Hastings School

Address:50 Hastings Boulevard
Current Use:

Education

Constructed:1960
Other Work:

Gymnasium added to the east side of structure (1968)

Architects:

Photographs

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.

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

Materials:

brick

Height:

2 storeys

Neighbourhood:

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