 Built in 1907, The building located at Sedgwick Avenue and Division Street was the original location for Albert G. Lane Manual Training High School (now known as Lane Tech College Prep), a then all boys vocational school which opened the following year.By 1931, Lane's enrollment had soared to 7,000, which caused over-crowding issues within the building.The Chicago Board of Education chose a new site for Lane which opened in 1934.