Fifth Street School (1936)
Architect(s): Orville L. Clark & George K. Thompson
Architect for renovation: KGA Architecture
Address: 400 Las Vegas Blvd. S.

This Mission/Spanish Revival style building served as a grammar school. The building then became the Clark County Courthouse Annex before being converted into a police substation and classroom space. This building was added to the Historic Register in 1988. A "Restoration and Re-use" project is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2008.

• Schwartz, David. Historic school getting new life as work of art. Las Vegas Review Journal. 6 January 2006. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-06-Fri-2006/news/5233005.html (last accessed February 20, 2007)
• City of Las Vegas: Fifth Street School revitalization: http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Government/10131.htm?ID= (last accessed February 20, 2007)
• National Register of Historic Places. Inventory--Nomination Form for the Las Vegas Grammar School (Fifth Street School). http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/files/5thStSchoolnomination.pdf(last accessed February 20, 2007)
• Sebelius, Steve. Students dream of new downtown. Las Vegas Sun. February 04, 1997. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1997/feb/04/students-dream-of-new-downtown/(last accessed February 22, 2007)
• View other buildings and image(s) available on ASL's self guided architectural driving tour at:http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/lasvegas/downtown01b.html#010 This series of pictures were taken by Paulette Nelson in July 2007 for the Architecture Studies Library. (view additional images)