Polytechnic School - Campus Information and The Capital Campaign

Campus Information and The Capital Campaign

The school is divided by Cornell Road into two campuses, north (lower and middle school) and south (upper school), and is adjacent to the Caltech campus. Most of the north campus buildings were designed by Myron Hunt, who also designed the Rose Bowl and The Huntington, and Elmer Gray, who designed the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Pasadena Playhouse. The Cornett Mansion, designed in 1907, in the south campus serves as the administration building and houses several classrooms for the upper school.

In April 2005, the city of Pasadena approved Polytechnic's Master Development Plan, which over the following ten years will permit the construction of an aquatics facility (opened in May 2006), an underground parking structure, and other facilities and new structures. Currently, a capital campaign is in the works to renovate and replace some of the school's older and outdated buildings. Changes include the modernization of Myron Hunt's historical buildings, the addition of a new library and administration-classroom building on the north campus and a new math and science building and the renovation of the administration building on the south campus.

Currently, the aquatics facility and the renovated "Haaga House" (the Upper School's administrative building) have been completed, along with the underground parking structure and renovations of some of Hunt's structures. Renovations to the Garland arts facility and auditorium and the surrounding science building were completed and opened to the school in the autumn of 2012.