"The new Palmer Campus may do more for the image of the city's struggling East Side neighborhood than any other single project in decades."

Post & Courier March 2001,
Robert Behre, Reporter
 

 
The Palmer Campus, which previously housed the C.E. Brown High School, lacked any type of main entry building. The program for the additions called for a design which would provide a new identity to the campus, establish an entry building to house administration facilities and a Media center, and renovation of another 25,000 square feet of existing space for computer and laboratory facilities. Specific to the site were two dominant smoke stacks which were visible from all locations of the campus. These smokestacks became the background for the entry building which included a tower form to play of the stacks in the background and establish an entry to the school.