The $28 million dollar restoration led by Jones Whitsett Architects celebrates the Renaissance Revival masonry building's importance to local history with restored exterior masonry and interior plaster, terrazzo, metal and stone details, as well as interpretive panels and archival photographs. Colegrove Park Elementary is on target to receive LEED Silver certification.

Four impartial judges, Turner Brooks, Naomi Darling, Russell Learned and Darling Loeffler Puurunen, reviewed 20 entries of completed design work from across the region.  Hoosac Valley School was celebrated by the judges for its skillful re-use of existing materials, daylighting improvements and thoughtful detailing of interior spaces.