Wardlaw-Hartridge School - Facilities and Campus

Facilities and Campus

The Wardlaw Hartridge School sits on a 36-acre (150,000 m2) campus on Inman Avenue bordering the Plainfield Country Club. The Campus includes the school building, athletic facilities, and two houses (Fargo House and Hill House).

The school building itself includes several subbuildings: The Horne Upper School, the Sarkison Middle School, The Panteleoni Lower School, the Snowdon Library, the Laidlaw Gymnasium, and the Plumeri Gymnasium. Naval architecture was a minor inspiration for the school's design, and, as such, the floors are called decks, with A Deck being on the bottom and C deck being on the top. Each of the divisional subbuildings includes several classrooms; The Upper School has sixteen, the Middle School has nine, and the Lower School has fourteen. Arts facilities are scattered throughout the building and include a band room, two choral rooms, and three visual art studios. The library is divided between B and C decks; the collection in the Lower Library on B deck is primarily for Lower School use, while the collection in the Upper Library on C deck is aimed at Middle and Upper School students. A computer lab for Middle School use is located in the Middle School. Offices for Administration, Admissions, Development, College Counseling, Summer Programs, and Information Technology are located throughout the building, with the largest cluster in the Upper School on B Deck. Other notable spaces in the school include: the All-Purpose (AP) Room, which serves as cafeteria, assembly room, theater, and concert hall; the Oakwood Room (formerly the Parents' Lounge, now used for more formal functions;) the Lecture Hall; the Senior Lounge; the Junior Lounge; the 1882 Room (which was recently converted from a Lounge to a room for displaying artworks); the 1881 Lounge (used extensively by sophomores); and the Gregory Boff Lobby to the Plumeri Gymnasium, which houses the schools extensive collection of athletic awards.

Besides the two gymnasiums listed above, the school has several other athletic facilities including an indoor swimming pool, a wrestling room (no longer used for wrestling,) a weight room, eight tennis courts, three soccer fields, and fields for both baseball and softball. Lower School students also enjoy recess on either section of the school's recently extended playground.