Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

$5.5 million transformation:
The Rober
obert t C. Walter Student Commons and
the Student Services & Fine Arts Center
A new architectural sketch of what the main St. Charles
school building will look like after construction of the
Robert C. Walter Student Commons and the Student
Services & Fine Arts Center is completed next spring.
This was the scene in mid-July when demolition was
begun on the original powerhouse and remains of its
smokestack at St. Charles.
A crane is worked carefully to take down a school
landmark, the remains of the powerhouse smokestack.
By late August, digging footers for Walter Commons
was almost completed and the foundation of a future
stage had taken shape.
Excavating machines create a huge crater for part of the
foundation of the Students Services & Fine Arts Center.
The basement of the former powerhouse is being
modified and expanded in conjunction with the new
construction.
In early October, three-quarters of the concrete for the
floor of the Walter Student Commons had been poured.
Upon the completion of backfilling various locations,
work was set to begin on the steel skeleton for the
Students Services & Fine Arts Center
A concrete pumper boom truck just finishes pouring the
basement floors of the Student Services & Fine Arts
Center. The brick tower had been topped off a day earlier
and steel beams were being erected in the first week of
November.
Cold winter weather has not slowed down progress.
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