North Campus

The "North Campus" building was finished in the spring of 1973 and opened in the fall of that year as Auburndale Junior High School. It was built to house 1000 students in grades 8 and 9, as the old Junior High School nearby was over capacity. It would continue as a separate school until it was absorbed by the AHS campus in 1989, bringing freshmen into AHS. The original building as it was laid out contained a courtyard in the center behind the media center, an auditorium with second story in the back, cafeteria with kitchen, industrial arts and home economics areas, science labs, and PE locker rooms. Prior to it becoming part of AHS, the closet for the first science lab (N 1) was torn out to create an extension for a new Industrial Arts suite in 1985.

The building is named the C.L. Smiley building for Cliff Smiley, longtime principal of AJHS. The Auburndale Star did a writeup on the new building on May 30, 1973: "The new building is modern in every detail. It is completely air conditioned, is carpeted throughout and has indirect lighting. The public address system is throughout the facility and the acoustics are reported to be excellent.... The very latest facilities for teaching are incorporated including a teaching auditorium with a stage equipped with rolling panels. It will seat 404 students but the walls can be rolled away to accommodate many more if the need arises....The library is large and also very modem. The building will have four complete science labs. It also has an excellent band facility. Administration offices are spacious and well appointed. Lockers have already been installed in the hallways for the convenience of the students." It was a model attempt by a school in Polk County to house an entire campus within one building.

1972 Parking Lot Side Construction

1972 Parking Lot Side Construction

1972 North Campus Steel Frame

1972 North Campus Steel Frame

1972 North Campus Steel Frame

1973 North Campus Auditorium Construction

North Campus Auditorium Construction

1973 North Campus Back of Building Construction

1973 North Campus Back of Building Construction

1973 Front of North Campus

1973 Front of North Campus

1973 North Campus Parking Lot Side Finished

1973 North Campus Parking Lot Side Finished

1973 North Campus Hallway Cropped

1973 North Campus Hallway Cropped

1973 North Campus Science Room

1973 North Campus Science Room

1977 FFA & Cows Behind North Campus

1973 FFA and Cows

1977 Jan Parking Lot Side

1977 Jan Parking Lot Side

1977 Jan Snow at North Campus

1977 Jan Snow North Campus

1977 Jan Taken From Auditorium

1977 Jan Taken From Auditorium

1978 Circulation Desk

1978 Circulation Desk

1978 Front Entrance

1978 Front Entrance

1980 Student Council in Front of Mural

1980 Student Council in Front of Mural

1981 Band Room

1981 Band Room

1981 Chorus Band Room

1981 Chorus Band Room

1981 Classroom Interior

1981 Classroom Interior

1981 Courtyard

1981 Courtyard

1981 Future Farmers of America

1981 FFA

1981 Front looking toward Bus Stop

1981 Front looking toward bus stop

1981 Front of AJHS

1981 Front of AJHS

1981 Front Office

1981 Front Office

1981 Student Council in front of Mural

1981 Student Council in front of Mural

1982 Students in Auditorium

1982 Students in Auditorium

1982 Yearbook Staff

1982 Yearbook Staff

1983 AHS Chorus in Auditorium

1983 AHS Chorus in Auditorum

1983 Band Room

1983 Band Room

1983 Science Class

1983 Science Class

1983 Students Behind Building

1983 Students Behind Building

1983 Students in Cafeteria

1983 Students in Cafeteria

1983 Teachers in front of Mural

1983 Teachers in front of Mural

1984 FHA in Library

1984 FHA in Library

1987 AJHS Wrestling Team

1978 AJHS Wrestling Team

1989 N 20s Hallway

1989 N 20s Hallway

1989 North Campus Hallway

1989 North Campus Hallway

1991 Cafeteria

1991 Cafeteria

1991 Cafeteria

1991 North Campus Cafteria

1992 Phone

1992 Phone

1993 Old North Campus Auditorium

1993 Old North Campus Auditorium

1995 FHA

1996 Outside North Campus

1996 Outside North Campus

2008 Front of North Campus

2008 Front of North Campus

2010 North Campus Hallway

2010 North Campus Hallway

2010 North Campus Media Center Construction

2010 North Campus Media Center Construction

Above Picture of AHS

Picture of AHS

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