And for our final post we will be taking a look at the final building that was built in 1929, the basement of this building was particularly creepy. I felt uneasy during this part of the explore, somewhat expecting to run into a squatter or something. That didn't happen but I did however run into something very unexpected, I heard something move in the basement but never saw anything at the time. Only after posting the video did one of my regular watchers point out that he had seen something moving down there in one of the bathrooms. If you want to find out what that was, you will have to watch the video!!
https://youtu.be/Jkyg0yshJS8
The future of the property and or buildings is still undecided, there have been a few ideas thrown around over the years such as turning it back into a school and the more likely scenario of turning it into housing. One of the original housing ideas was being considered by the province and would have included 40% affordable housing units. Since then not a lot has happened with the site until it was sold to a development company in 2021. They of course want to turn the property into housing and the community wanted to see the historical 104 year old building turned into a community centre. But so far nothing has happened since then and the buildings continue to deteriorate while the property and its buildings await their future.
Let me know what you thought of this abandoned school and community centre in the comments below!!
And please do not disclose the location in the comments.
Since 2010, the second week in September has been National Arts in Education week. Since the 1980s, Minnesota's students have had a unique way to integrate arts into their education -- Perpich Center for the Arts.
The passion project of former Governor Rudy Perpich and his wife Lola, the Minnesota School and Resource Center for the Arts was created by the state legislature in 1985, The Arts Center served a dual purpose as a state resource for arts education and a public arts high school. As a state resource, the center supported arts educators and offered art programs throughout Minnesota. Support included classes and instructional materials, as well as a resource library.
In September 1989, the center's arts high school opened its doors in Golden Valley. Complete with a dormitory, the Perpich Arts High School enrolls 11th and 12th graders from across the state. These 300+ students receive a tuition-free, college-preparatory education that centers one of six arts areas -- dance, literary arts, media arts, music, theater, or visual arts.
Minnesota Arts Resource Center newsletter from the Mary Katherine Johnson Papers (M/A 0411).
Why is it teenagers can just never win with older people? Like recently at my school our older teachers were complaining the students dressed “too casual
This is a public school literally who cares if they wear sweatpants and hoodies every day??? It is not harming anyone AT ALL and I can say for sure if a student instead wore a crop top and some shorts ever so slightly above their fingertips that student would be sent to the office for being “too revealing”
WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO? Wear suits, ties, and dresses to school to watch the 8:25 AM fight and see Sally stick a heel in Savannah’s eye because she talked to Kegan one time during lunch and dared to offer him her shitty carrots?
University High School cafeteria, The University of Iowa, April 1928
Creator: Kent, Frederick W.
The University High School was established in 1916 for grades 9-12 and grades 7 and 8 were added the following year. It was a laboratory or experimental school directed through the College of Education for the training of principals, superintendents and teachers. Along with the University Elementary School, it was closed in 1972 due to lack of funding.
Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!
This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.
In today's post we will be taking a look at the first building that was part of the property, built in 1919!!
Given the state of disrepair and considering how original one of the older buildings was, I suspect that it may have not been used when the property was a community centre. This building in particular was absolutely incredible with the original hardwood doors, moldings and cabinetry. The newest of the structures was fairly modern looking and had fallen victim to heavy vandalism since the site's closure 9 years ago.
Let me know what you thought of this abandoned school and community centre in the comments below!!
And please do not disclose the location in the comments.
Stop by Roosevelt Library this fall to see a display highlighting 100 years of Roosevelt High School--check out the display cases on the outside of the building and find yearbook covers and images through the years inside! Can you guess the years?
Roosevelt High School opened in fall of 1922 as an experimental combined junior/senior high, serving students from seventh to twelfth grades. When planning began for the school, it was referred to as the Nokomis High School--city high schools at the time were consistently named after their district (East, Central, South, and West). But the Minneapolis School Board believed it would be “inappropriate to call a high school after a mythical figure such as Nokomis,” a grandmother figure in traditional Ojibwe stories and in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Neighborhood residents wished for the school to be renamed after Thomas Jefferson, but the School Board voted to name the new school Roosevelt, after 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Their mascot is a bear and their nickname is the Teddies.
While the Roosevelt Library branch across the street from the school didn't open until 1927, the library got its early start in the high school. When the library opened in 1923 it was one of three school branches in the city, and served not only students, but also neighborhood residents. As the population of the Nokomis area grew, so too did the need for a standalone library. Minneapolis Public Library purchased a parcel of land across from the school and the new library opened in February 1927. Meanwhile, the Roosevelt High School library continued to thrive under the direction of head librarian Augusta Bjeldanes, as a resource for school students, and one of the largest and highest circulating high school libraries in the Midwest.
Hennepin County Library Special Collections has a vast archive on the Minneapolis Public Schools including thousands of photographs. The photos are still being digitized, but you can find many online in our Digital Collections.
Find Hennepin County yearbooks in Special Collections! Yearbooks from 1890 to 1988 are digitized and available online.