Urbana High School

I was just having some fun with this blip. Guess I have been getting bored with my blips of late.
This is the high school where my mother graduated from and I did also.
Urbana High School's current building was built in 1914. It was designed by architect Joseph Royer who also designed many other area buildings such as the Urbana Free Library and the Champaign County Court House. The architecture is of the Tudor style defined primarily by the towers over the main entrance and flattened point arches over the doors.

An addition was built in 1916 that included a gymnasium and swimming pool. Due to increasing enrollment, other additions were built in 1955 and in 1965.

In 1988, an enclosed athletic area was added and the old gymnasium/pool wing was converted into classrooms. The entire building was also renovated to meet safety codes. The Urbana Park District Indoor Aquatic Center was built in 2003, adjoining Urbana High School and bringing the building to its current state.

During the renovation in the late 80s, areas that had been sealed off during previous construction revealed graffiti dating back to around the 50s.

Beginning in 2011, the USD #116 began construction on several projects to update older facilities. The school demolished its football and soccer fields in the spring of 2011 and combined them into a new state-of-the-art football/soccer field, with artificial turf and several bleachers (Urbana Tigers Athletic Complex). The project cost an estimated 4.3 million dollars. Cobb Memorial Auditorium is also undergoing a complete renovation, which will attempt to restore and reincorporate historical features of its earlier design (estimated cost 4.6 million and will be finished by August 2012).[ Additional improvements to the facilities are being done and hope to be completed by the end of 2012.