Thomas Jefferson High School

Thomas Jefferson High School, built in 1932 and located in San Antonio's Monticello Park neighborhood, is both a historic landmark and an interior historic landmark. When it was time to renovate the third floor – including three science classrooms that retained their original finishes – FPC was engaged to preserve the historic character of the space while modernizing and upgrading to current educational standards.   

SAISD's desire to maintain the interior landmark designation meant that their original plan to gut the science labs and replace with modern fixtures and finishes would not work. Instead, the historic wood lab stations and cabinetry that remained in three of the seven classrooms was saved and restored and the wood cabinetry in the remaining four classrooms was refurbished to its original state. These four classrooms had lost their historic lab stations in the 1990's, so they received new lab table layouts along the perimeter wall, per current SAISD specifications.