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Monroe School in Cedar Rapids becomes housing prototype
The 1961 Monroe building is eyed as the first Cedar Rapids school converted to housing. Historians call it a groundbreaking preservation prototype as Cedar Rapids plans to close eight elementary schools over two decades to address enrollment declines.
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Cedar Rapids
Mark Stoffer Hunter
History Center
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Garfield
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Kenwood
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Nixon
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van Buren
Susie Weinacht
Weinacht
John Laverty
Affordable Housing Network
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