This picture recently appeared on the City Schools of Decatur’s website.  But with little explanation.

Three time capsules at Fifth Avenue?  What could it be?  Old teacher-edition textbooks?  Pirate gold?  Barrels full of monkeys?  Astronaut ice cream?

Luckily we have CSD’s Bruce Roaden to keep our feet on the ground and give us the real – and interesting! – story behind this pic.

Scott Russell, long time CSD employee and former teacher at 5th Avenue remembered that a time capsule had been created at 5th Ave. and was buried in a wall. Scott took our maintenance and construction folks to 5th Ave. and led them to the spot in the wall where it was “buried”. The directions were to open it in 2013. We took the time capsule out of the 5th Avenue wall (unopened) and will place it in the new 5th Avenue School.

Old Fifth Avenue Site Plan

New Fifth Avenue Site Plan

The new site plans for the Fifth Avenue 4/5 Academy are now online!

The old and new site plans are above.  You can either click the pic itself for a larger image view, or you can go straight to the PDF, which allows for really obsessive zooming.  The biggest changes since the last go-round?  Lots more street parking and a smaller school footprint, which allows for more green-space on the site.

There are also site plan PDFs available for the ground floor, main floor and upper floor of the actual building.

Check it!

Pete noted that a conceptual master plan and elevation drawings (both PDFs) of the proposed Fifth Avenue 4/5 Academy have been posted on the City Schools of Decatur website.

Dig in!