Claremont Prep School

Award-winning historic restoration and adaptive reuse of a former bank headquarters into a prep school for students grades K-8.

Main hall with mosaic by World War II Navy combat artist Griffith Baily Cole

Mosaic installations by Griffith Baily Cole. Adaptive reuse project by OCV Architects.

OCV transformed the bank vault to serve as the schools' cafeteria.

An olympic sized swimming pool was added at the roof level.

Added to the building were a regulation-size rooftop gymnasium and outdoor playground

Interior corridor at the Claremont Prep School

Interior corridor at Claremont Prep School

Conference room at the Claremont Prep School in lower Manhattan.

Claremont Prep historic bank building facade

This project entailed the historic restoration and adaptive reuse of a former bank headquarters into a prep school for students grades K-8. The building was once the Lee, Higginson and Company Bank headquarters in the heart of New York’s financial district.

Highlights of its conversion include a new Olympic length swimming pool and regulation-size rooftop gym and outdoor playground.

In 2006, the New York State Historic Preservation Office awarded OCV with the Private Sector Achievement Award for this project.

Client: MetSchools, Inc
Location: New York, NY
Status: Completed 2005
Size: 120,000 sf

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