Architect S. S. Voigt designed the school in the Collegiate Gothic style.

The red brick building features a limestone foundation and detail work, multiple gable roofs and gabled dormers, and windows with quoined surrounds.

[2] At the end of the 2012–2013 school year, the school was closed and the property sold to a private developer, who declared his intention to convert it to an apartment complex dubbed Buffalo Apartments.

[3] The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 2013.

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