Clifty Creek Elementary

Richard Meier

1982

Clifty Creek Elementary occupies a sloping 22-acre site overlooking US 31. Its unusual two-tone exterior combines white-glazed and gray aggregate block, while inside, Meier kept surfaces mostly white so that students’ presence and work would provide color. The school was praised at its dedication as “the finest elementary school in Indiana” and remains a distinctive example of late modernist educational architecture.