Tiger Senior Apartments
Paris High School
Type
Affordable Housing
Location
Paris, Illinois
Built
1909, 1922, 1943
Developer
Project Partners
CORE Construction of Illinois, Inc.
Blank, Wesselink, Cook & Associates, Inc. (BWC)
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Ryan’s Historic Tax Credits team worked with Laborer’s Home Development Corp. (LHDC) to rehabilitate and convert a 100-year-old former high school in Paris, Illinois into low-income senior housing. The $13.9 million project was funded through a combination of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), $2.2 million in federal historic tax credits, and $2.7 million in state historic tax credits. In fact, Tiger Senior Apartments, was one of the first projects awarded credits through Illinois’s new state Historic Tax Credits program.
Paris High School was built in 1909, designed by Bloomington, Illinois architect Arthur Low Pillsbury in the Classical Revival style. In 1922, two new additions were constructed, also designed in the Classical Revival style by Arthur Pillsbury. In 1943, a new gymnasium in the Streamline Moderne style was attached to the rear of the high school.
AWARDS
- Landmarks Illinois | 2021 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award for Adaptive Reuse
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