As of October 25, 2011:

October 25, Cool time lapse video of The Learning Center for the Deaf's old barn demolition and new Early Childhood Center building construction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QDiD8Ds6A

May 23, It is a BIG day today as pre/K classes started in the ECC/Library building!

May 19 and 20, was the move-in dates for Pre/K: Special thanks to "Astro of New England" for their support by sending 6 men to not only move all boxes from the top floor of the Elementary School, but also to move us out of the trailer. As it happens, we could not have done it without this help, thank you!!

Moving from Marie Philip Elementary...

to the new ECC building on the upper/first floor.

Quick preview of the new building:

Outside of the new building and playground

Upper floor: Parent Infant Program, open area and stairways

Lower floor: Library, one of conference/ASL class rooms and a hallway

February 10, Tremendous progress is being made on the new building. We anticipate the building to be completed mid-April.

The upper floor will be the new home to our ever-expanding Parent Infant Program, preschool and kindergarten. On the lower level you will find a beautiful library, conference center, nursing suite, and OT/PT suite.

In the spring the new playground will move from its temporary home by the gym back to where it was when the Barn was at this location. Additional play structures will be added including a swing set.

Front entrance

Back view from Kellogg street

Library

July 27, the site contractors will begin to fill in the "hole" around the new foundation! They will bring soil by truck from the huge pile near 300 House into the Maintenance/Kellogg parking lot. From this parking lot they will dump the soil into the hole.

June 15, the new elementary parking lot was completed.

May 12, the far end of the soccer field became the temporary home for dirt from the new building’s excavation. Fencing was also installed for temporary parking.  The dirt pile is about 80 feet by 80 feet and 25 feet high. The pile will be trucked back to the building site and the field replanted during the summer.

May 6, construction of the new early childhood center began with demolition.

May 4, the playground was demolished (left photo), with a temporary playground behind the maintenance building becoming available (right photo).

April 29, preparation started for a new parking lot behind the Marie Philip Elementary building. Newly installed underground pipes for telephone and data lines between the development building and the maintenance building were completed.

April 16, the last day for the library, art room and ASL department, all housed in the barn. As of May 11, the library and art program moved to modular classrooms, while the ASL department relocated to the second floor of Kellogg House.

A farewell event for TLC’s barn and first elementary building was held on April 15. The Framingham campus and Walden School students, staff, some former staff and alumni visited the Barn for the very last time, wrote good-bye messages on the walls and participated in a few different activities to remember the building. Shortly after, the building was demolished.
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