Village school number two. This one was also founded in 1926 and the current school building was constructed in 1950. It was closed in 2006. The eaves are failing, but the doors are well locked. It was starting to look like another failure. It looks like the teacher apartments are in this wing. The doorsContinue reading “Village School Number Two”
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Village School Number One
For the really first time this summer I am entering uncharted territory. The previous winter I read a news article about a municipality closing all but one of their schools. This is really no news. Many small municipalities in Finland only have one school left. But this one is one of the largest municipalities inContinue reading “Village School Number One”
Two Landmarks Erased With One Plan Part I
After realizing, that I had to say goodbye to the old restaurant Jokela, I next drove up the Niinivaara hill, where two more endangered landmarks were standing. The first of them is the former Juhanala school built in 1960. The school in the building was closed in 2012 and the high school in the sameContinue reading “Two Landmarks Erased With One Plan Part I”
For Sale, Yet Unwanted
Today I present you a new big catch. It is a former elementary school built in 1954. Located outside the town center the school still had around 100 pupils, when it was closed in 2010. The building was in good shape back then. They tried to sell it several times, but the highest bid wasContinue reading “For Sale, Yet Unwanted”
Another Endangered Beauty
This here is a former elementary school of a small, rural town. Apparently designed by architect Eino Pitkänen, who is famous for designing half of the town of Kajaani, and completed in 1949. School use ended in 2011 and all other use in 2021. The story is again familiar. The local activists want to preserveContinue reading “Another Endangered Beauty”
Finally Here During Daylight Part III
The front of the previous classroom. The back room yet again. And the following classroom. The classrooms were small. But the school wasn’t big either, though. Yet another standard classroom with a couple of cupboards and a sink. The side stairway at the back of the school. Reaching the top now. And here we go,Continue reading “Finally Here During Daylight Part III”
Finally Here During Daylight Part II
The ground floor has now almost been explored. The main entrance is down to the right and this is the main stairway. But I’m not going up just yet. Because I’ve just found the girls’ dressing room. I wonder, what has happened there near the floor. Again it seems like somebody has removed all theContinue reading “Finally Here During Daylight Part II”
Finally Here During Daylight Part I
And yet again a familiar location. This is a former village school, which I found in 2021 when it was getting dark and I was busy trying to make it to another location. I visited this place for the first time very late in the night in 2022 when in a hurry. Back then thereContinue reading “Finally Here During Daylight Part I”
Skiing To School Around The Year
The millenials in Finland have their own way of mocking boomers, who constantly think that everything was better before and that the current youth have it too easy. We start sarcastically telling, what all things were better, and what they had to endure. And every single time somebody brings up the ‘yeah, we used toContinue reading “Skiing To School Around The Year”
This Screams Abandonment Part IV
The third floor side corridor was one of the final corners of the school still left to explore. A lonely ski boot. A further classroom. I wonder, what has been on the shelves. The poor piano. Another classroom with broken windows. Once again everything even close to loose had been ripped off. Another one ofContinue reading “This Screams Abandonment Part IV”