Vocational Building

110 N. William

  • Date: 1928
  • Style: Art Deco
  • District: Downtown Historic Registry

Behind the main Central High School building is a smaller vocational building which, in later years, served part of Central's vocational educational program. The vocational building was originally built to comply with a 1913 state law requiring vocational education programs. In 1918, South Bend built a small one-story machine shop and foundry building of factory construction behind the high school as a beginning of South Bend's vocational education program for boys. In 1928, the small machine shop was incorporated into a much larger building that served as the Boys' Vocational School. The building consisted of machine shops, automobile repair shops, and printing shops on the first floor and classrooms on the second floor. This building has also been adaptively renovated into apartments. In 1982, Central High School and its campus were designated as a Local Landmark.

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Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County

Image credit: Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County