Tour of a Newly Abandoned High School

I toured this wonderful old high school and took lots of film footage. In spring, 2006, this school shut its doors due to declining enrollment. One of my hobbies is collecting pictures of rural schools in North Dakota, so when I had the chance to tour this one, I jumped at it!

I just wanted to add how nice it is to hear from alumni of this school. I never attended this school, but I think I would have liked both teaching in it and being a student in it.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Rhame
• high
• school
• consolidation
• tour
• north
• dakota
• old

[mamacita4two]

Where is this? i would like to take this abandoned equipment!.

[WaskiSquirrel]

@mamacita4two Too late!

[metakight43]

Our high school is almost 170 years old and it's not going to be abandoned anytime soon lol

[WaskiSquirrel]

@metakight43 You're probably fortunate enough to have students. This school was running out.

[weedeaterbike]

so did you get the copper or what? lmfao

[WaskiSquirrel]

@weedeaterbike I got lab equipment for my classroom. Does that count?

[redneckbryon]

Not that bad looking, but I do see why it's no longer in use, two small of classrooms!

[CorbanNoah]

I like it when he says "I'm going to be quiet for a while so you can hear what an old school sounds like." The next thing you hear is the happy background music. ;-)

[jjbluesam]

Was the music playing inside the school or something?

[thevacuumman5]

why did the school shutdown and become abandoned?

[CraptasticJack]

that school is as big as our first wing :P

[CraptasticJack]

how did you get in?

[IcedEarth1792]

might i ask why its abandoned? it still looks like a new building and it looks like it has been refurbished

[Emil308]

@onevike yes, tax dollars would contribute to the cost of demolishing the building. Otherwise, removing miscellaneous unaccounted for items in abandoned structure won't affect the taxpayer. Even if it did, i'm pretty sure the dollar value of any goods removed would be much much more than any potential tax increase anyway. Cheers.

[Emil308]

@onevike someone abandons something, that means they forfeit their ownership of that something, whatever it is. Therefore, it's up for grabs. As far as my taxes going up due to looters. where's the logic in that? Seriously? You're removing an un-owned item from an abandoned building, how would that translate into a tax increase. Last time I checked, governments don't give funding OR financially support unused abandoned buildings there buddy. When it comes to demolishing it, yes, in that case

[Emil308]

@onevike Hey, I can see where you're coming from, but more often than not abandoned building never get reinhabited, so cleaning them up isn't necessary. Besides, I don't believe this building is technically "abandoned" in the true sense, as there is still tons of valuable goods in there, more like they closed down, are are simply using the building as a huge ass storage facility until they can move out all the valuable goods. There's nothing wrong with looting an abandoned building. When

[kingkevin1996]

@metakight43 wow my middle school was built in the 1890's..hopefully it'll be abandoned soon cuz i hated my school !

[blaphemer21]

Wow; the attic looks like the one used on The Never Ending Story