University President Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., blessed the former Madison School in the historic Hill Section as an early childhood learning center and graduate student housing complex at a ceremony on Nov. 19. Newly renovated and repurposed, the facility sprung from a collaboration among the University, Hildebrandt Learning Centers and Greenspace Properties, which owns the property and maintains it on Scranton’s tax rolls.
Built in the early 1900s, the 43,000-square-foot, three-story building is listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. “Our renovations kept intact the historic façade and much of the interior layout while upgrading the facility with energy-efficient systems,” said Tom Romanowski, president and CEO of Greenspace Properties.
The early learning center occupies the first floor, while the second and third floors have been converted into one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
The facility’s adaptive reuse won one of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 Scranton Awards for Growth and Excellence.
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