Lane Technical College Prep High School
- Architect
- Dwight H. Perkins
- Year
- 1908
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
Lane Technical College Prep High School was founded in 1908 and dedicated on Washington's Birthday in 1909, named for Albert G. Lane, a former Chicago Public Schools principal and superintendent. Dwight H. Perkins designed the building in the Chicago School style. Located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood, Lane Tech is a selective-enrollment magnet school within Chicago Public Schools.
the style
The building was designed in the Chicago School style, an idiom developed in the same city for commercial towers, applied here to a large public high school.
More on Chicago Schoolthe architect
Dwight H. Perkins was a Chicago architect noted for his school building designs, of which Lane Tech, completed in 1908, is one example.
significance
Lane Tech is the largest high school in Illinois, with an enrollment of more than four thousand students. It is one of eleven selective-enrollment schools in the city, and in 2019 it was ranked the third-best public high school in Illinois and 69th nationally.
nearby
- John Rath House
- Davis Theater
- Krause Music Store
- Northwestern Terra Cotta Company Building
- All Saints Church and Rectory
- Basilica of St. Hyacinth