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Newark's New High School of Architecture & Interior Design

The general public got a look at Newark’s newest high school on Wednesday, a former hospital meant to prep students for careers in architecture, design, and the building trades in a city undergoing a years-long building boom .

With classes in session, the district gave reporters and photographers a tour of the orange-brick Newark School of Architecture & Interior Design in the city’s Ironbound section.

Freshmen sat in freshly painted, brightly lit classrooms with windows that once let patients bask in healing sunlight.

Others focused intently on design programs displayed on brand-new double-wide computer monitors.

The same five-story glass-walled stairwell where doctors and nurses once bounded up or down to

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