Sacred Heart Catholic School Auditorium

1315 Mapleton Avenue/ Langhart-McGuire-Barngrover architect/ Expressionism style
Auditorium: built 1959
Classrooms: built 1967

This school was built over many years in several phases. The tour focuses on the auditorium and classrooms buildings both of which were designed by Victor Langhart who came out of the office of Hobart Wagener.

The auditorium wing is a simple box with subtle Modernist details, including the double stairs on the street front, the repetitive pattern made of stacked concrete blocks for the side walls, and a roof in a series of angles (folded plate configuration) with clerestory windows that bring light into the interior.

The classroom wing is on raised columns creating ground-level space for students to recreate. The interior provides learning spaces for up to 200 students. The building is constructed with exposed concrete structural frames and masonry infill walls with flat roofs.