Yesterday was opening day for SEARCH’s second House of Tiny Treasures, the organization’s child-education-slash-daycare operation. The new structure at the corner of Francis St. and currently-being-Emancipated Dowling forms a Francis-facing U around the land last employed as a playground following decades of vacancy. On the back side of the block is the crumbling former salon building which was briefly turned into a pre-integration time capsule living room as part of that 2013 Beauty Box art installation; east on Stuart St. is the spot where the ZeRow solar rowhouse landed after it went to Washington:

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The new Tiny Treasures space is done up in white with purple trim, in contrast to the original House’s all-purple buildings on Lombardy St.; here are a few more renderings from Studio Red Architects (who also designed SEARCH’s 59-side service center downtown), along with some photos of the finished look:

That’s a rainwater cistern lurking behind the ghostly rendered trees:

• Previously on Swamplot: Planned 10-Week Dowling St. Name Change Kicks Off Tomorrow; Greened-Up SEARCH Homeless Services Building Now Open By Cheek-Neal Building in East Downtown

Images: Studio Red Architects (renderings), Project Row House (1st photo), House of Tiny Treasures (all other photos)