My adventures in the national landmark area continue, and guess what. The sleet storm is over.
Have another guess. There’s another abandoned school on the other side of the area.
This one was completed in the early 1960’s and was also designed by a famous architect especially renowned for his schools.
The building included a classroom wing to the left and a gym to the right and they were connected by a corridor.
The yard is empty and the bike park is growing bushes. The school was abandoned in 2016 because of, surprise, surprise, air quality problems.
The gym wing. Back in 2020 the city razed the two rowhouses built behind for the teachers’ apartments and started building a new school in their place.
The new school was almost complete by the time of my visit. The fate of the old school remains unknown, as it’s in a bad condition, has been left decaying for years and the city has no use for it. It is of historic value, however.
Painters have started to find it.
That strange block on the roof probably is the room for the air conditioning equipment. It looks like a later addition.
The classroom wing ends in another blockish part.
Full of emptiness, it says. I can’t prove it, as there’s no way in.
The front yard of the school is actually at the back. The new school can be seen behind the trees.
A striking feature of the front yard is this shelter, which runs the entire length of the school. It divides the yard into smaller sections, each of which had their own entrance.
Welcome to the graffiti exhibition.