Built in 1895, the old No. 8 School was described in a Aug. 17, 1952, Enquirer and News retrospective as an edifice of "elaborate design and wasted hall space." It stood on the site of the future Woodrow Wilson School, or Wilson Elementary, as it was later known, at the head of Boardman Avenue. "In the old days, before a high-wire fence was constructed, the pupils had the whole of Bathrick's woods as a playground."