This small town school is one of the first abandoned buildings I ever laid eyes on as a kid. My Great Aunt and Uncle lived just up the road. When we would drive by I remember staring intently out the car window at the rather ominous looking building and wondering what it looked like inside. Many years later I finally satisfied my childhood curiosity and it was certainly no disappointment!
Schools in general are very expensive to build, but this one was especially so. It was constructed in the 1920's for around $400,000, or around $10 million in today's money. The school was closed in 1979 as population in the already small town dwindled and students were shipped out to larger schools in adjoining towns.
The amount of decay in this building is extreme. A fence was erected a few years ago because pieces of the facade were falling to the ground below. The building is now home to all manner of wildlife, stray cats (whom are fed by neighbors), entirely to many pigeons and my friend even spotted a fox on our first visit.
This school truly has a "Life After People" feel to it.
These are mix of shots from my first trip earlier this year as well as from two weekends ago when I made a return trip with Mookster while he was in town.
Please go over to the Photography section and check out his take on the place!
Bicycle races are coming your way
Fat bottom girls, they'll be riding today
A Window to Another World
The Room That Made My Whole Day
Bottles and cans, seeds and stems
Will I ever change? Guess it all depends
Nature Has Once Again Stolen The Show
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
It's the new mother nature takin over
She's gettin us all
I used to think happy endings were only in the books I read
Vine Vomit
Growing Ever Higher
Brick by Brick
Choose Your Own Adventure
Lecture on the Dangers of Pigeon Poop