Tiger Senior Apartments

Ryan’s Historic Tax Credits team worked with Laborer’s Home Development Corp. (LHDC) to rehabilitate and convert a 100-year-old former high school in Paris, Illinois into low-income senior housing. The $13.9 million project was funded through a combination of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), $2.2 million in federal historic tax credits, and $2.7 million in state historic tax credits. In fact, Tiger Senior Apartments, was one of the first projects awarded credits through Illinois’s new state Historic Tax Credits program.

Paris High School was built in 1909, designed by Bloomington, Illinois architect Arthur Low Pillsbury in the Classical Revival style. In 1922, two new additions were constructed, also designed in the Classical Revival style by Arthur Pillsbury. In 1943, a new gymnasium in the Streamline Moderne style was attached to the rear of the high school.