Crow Island School

Crow Island School
Crow Island School is located in Illinois
Crow Island School
Crow Island School is located in the United States
Crow Island School
Location1112 Willow Road
Winnetka, Illinois 60093
Coordinates42°6′2″N 87°44′45″W / 42.10056°N 87.74583°W / 42.10056; -87.74583
Built1940
ArchitectSaarinen, Eliel & Eero; Perkins, Wheeler & Will
Architectural styleInternational Style
NRHP reference No.89001730
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 27, 1989[1]
Designated NHLDecember 14, 1990[2]

Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, is an elementary school operated by Winnetka Public Schools. It is significant for its progressive philosophy and its International Style architecture. The design of its building was a collaboration between the Chicago firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will and Eliel and Eero Saarinen.[3] It currently serves kindergarten through fourth grade students.[4] The school was established in 1940-41.[5] Sebastian Hinton's prototype "jungle gym" was located here, having been moved from Horace Mann School in 1940 and then relocated to the Winnetka Historical Society in 2010.[6][7] The school was awarded the Twenty-five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects in 1971.[8] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990.[2] In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, Crow Island School was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places [9] by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Crow Island School". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/perkins.html Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine Oral History interview regarding design of school.
  4. ^ "School website". Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  5. ^ School history website Archived 2010-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  6. ^ "J" is for Jungle Gym from Winnetka, Illinois Historical Society
  7. ^ "Crow Island School history". Archived from the original on May 11, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
  8. ^ The American Institute of Architects. Twenty Five Year Recipients Archived November 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  9. ^ Waldinger, Mike (January 30, 2018). "The proud history of architecture in Illinois". Springfield Business Journal. Retrieved January 30, 2018.