First post here. I've had this account for over a year, but I'm just starting to get back into exploring.
This is an old three story school located somewhere in Wisconsin. Built in 1915 originally as the towns high school, it was later used as the towns middle school until it's closure in 1999. Since then, the building has switched owners nearly ten times - and virtually nothing has been done to maintain it.
Today, an EPA warning for arsenic/lead/mercury/asbestos hangs on one of the front doors. severe roof leaks leave anything beyond the first floor nearly unexplorable. No ceiling tiles in the hallways remain intact, creating a squishy brown mush covering the floor. Duct-work collapsed from one part of the basement hallway ceiling, cracking a main wood beam in half. This place could be one winter away from literally collapsing. Not only that, but there's an absurd amount of pigeons on the third floor and possibly an owl in the building. i'm not willing to fight off an owl.
Nearly all of the decay is natural, and I only counted about 3 pieces of graffiti. This place is pretty untouched, and at this point it looks like it will be nature that takes it over with no future plan of demolition.
My next trip back will be with a better camera. usually I use a Cannon, but I only had my iPhone for this. Sorry about that.
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1. This was an office in the basement. There was a visible mist in the air, which you can see in this picture (not a ghost).
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2. A classroom in the basement. There were quite a few classrooms that still had lots of desks.
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3. The "green room". Most windows remain intact, which was especially kind of trippy in this room with the nice neighborhood outside.
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4. Auditorium hallway
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5. 2nd floor hallway. We couldn't get ourselves to walk across it with that cracked beam in the basement and that light barely hanging on.
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6. 2nd floor classroom. This room alone remains so unstructurally sound that all of the interior wall bricks have collapsed.
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7. 2nd floor hallway.