operating and whether a new school should be replaced but was initially rejected. Plans for an extension to the Park Place building was considered but a replacement school building was later granted and that it would be built on a new site rather than the existing site at Park Place. A replacement school was designed by Patrick Thoms in 1926, taking several years to complete: the school moved to its present site on Perth Road on 21 April 1931. Harris Academy was a selective secondary school until it became a comprehensive in 1973. The last intake to its Primary Department was August 1955. Harris Academy moved to Lawton Road in 2013 as its former Perth Road building was revamped. On 22 June 2015, Dundee City Council voted to close Menzieshill High School and amalgamate the two schools. Pupils from Menzieshill High School transferred to Harris Academy in 2016 when the new Perth Road building was completed. 18 councillors voted in favour for Menzieshill High School to close with 14 councillors against the closure. Buildings and grounds Park Place building (1885-1931) Harris Academy's original building was located at Park Place in Dundee which opened on 31 August 1885. The Park Place building officially opened on 2 September 1885. Due to the popularity of the school by more pupils joining Harris Academy, the Park Place building was too small for pupils to fit and therefore moved to Perth Road. Former Perth Road building (1931-2013) The main building was built in 1931 after the school population outgrew the previous Park Place building and was officially opened by Sir James Irvine, principal of St. Andrews University on 1 May 1931. The former Perth Road building housed the Modern Languages department, the Social Subjects departments, the Science departments, The Religious Education department, the Craft and Design department, the Mathematics department, Assembly Hall, the Guidance base, Year-Heads' offices, and the Rector's office. The Crawford Lodge annex to the west of the main school was purchased by the Town Council in 1946 as an extension to the school. Classics and modern languages were taught there. It was burnt down in 1958 and remained a shell until it was replaced by the new buildings in the late 1960s. This housed the Computing and Business Studies departments, the Home Economics department, the English department, the Art department, the school library, the careers base, the Dining hall, two of the