Built in the 1970s, students from grades 6,7, and 8 attended this school until 2017, when it was closed by the city and was considered to be surplus. After a developer bought the property I was able to explore it and get some pretty good photos of it. Unfortunately My camera battery died so I wasn't able to get exterior photos of the school. At the time I thought no big deal, I can just come back. But when I did less than a week later, it had already been demolished.
Here is an arial view from maps.
Personally I am no fan of public education and often joke about it being a prison for the mind, well this school really encapsulated that! Long hallways with "pod" structures surrounded by hexagon shaped classrooms. Literally a prison design!
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Is that...an ironing board? (13th picture down) Seems like an odd thing to have in a bathroom...
My middle school also had a "pod" structure, but it was 4 classrooms around a central workroom. I never really thought about it as being a prisonlike architecture (though let's face it, I haven't seen the inside of a prison even now, so there's zero chance I would've made that association back then), but I guess it is, at least to some extent.
This hexagonal version gives more visual interest for the mind to ponder, with its dearth of 90-degree angles, but that's about all it seems to have going for it.
Thank you for sharing!
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I think the ironing board was in a home economics class
Ahh, that makes more sense. The sinks made me think it was a bathroom, but those would be right at home in a home ec room as well. Thank you for clearing that up!
What great pictures and the history of the place! A pity it has been demolished. And it's unbelievable the resemblance it has to a prison, education should never look like that. I send you greetings, have a nice weekend.
Thanks I hope you do too!
Awesome!
Love too see that schools are so different compared to germany.
Maybe you were the last one to take photos of this. That‘s kinda cool
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