Our next stop was the former secondary school of Outokumpu. Built in 1950 it was enlarged in 1954 and the early 1960’s. It had been abandoned some years ago due to bad condition and was set to be demolished.
The local papers said that the school would be demolished during the summer, so I figured out that this would be my last chance to visit it. After all it was already late in May.
But when I arrived, it started increasingly looking like the people in this town didn’t know when summer begins.
The school already had fences around it.
A part of the window is gone. The reflection is from the town’s church on the neighbouring lot.
A fairly strange corner to start the work from.
The taller part is obviously the 1950 built original one. The annex looks more like the 1960’s part.
Forbidden as always. But maybe I could sneak…
Back to the front side. That building houses the gym.
The main entrance was between the classroom wing and the gym wing. I have my suspicions about the gym wing having been built later.
What a nice mural. Sadly it will soon disappear too.
I’m still not sure about the gym wing. From some angles it looks old, from some angles it looks modern but built in an old style.
So it was this hard to sneak in.
See the open door in the old part straight ahead?
They had probably started by demolishing the interior of the newer part. The bag upstairs contains asbestos waste, I guess.
Eventually I decided against entering. I could have done it just to increase my body count of abandoned buildings, but there wouldn’t have been much of interest left, if things had been stripped to bare concrete, as it looks like.
A good three months later there was nothing remaining of the school.