ORIGINS

I grew up in a small Ohio town and I rode the school bus from 1st through 12th grades. My bus ride always included a country road on which every school day we saw a one-room brick school house. (SW corner of Stine Rd and Enon-Xenia Pike). As the years went by I watched this wonderful, familiar friend fall apart. After I married the school really began to deteriorate. Every time we visited the area I would want to take a photo of the school but never did. Finally, when we went specifically for the task, the school was gone. It was a huge loss for me and, since that time, whenever we pass a one-room school it is a joy to stop to take a picture or two. Thus, our collection here and the blog with schools in other states. Jill :oD

Showing posts with label Polk County. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Nagle School


This brick school is located at 1220 NW 78th Ave. on the south side of Ankeny.  The easiest way to locate it is to start at the intersection of Oralabor and Irvingdale Drive.  Cross Oralabor southbound to the first left turn, which is 78th, and acts as a frontage road for Oralabor.  The school will be about 100’ east of the intersection, on the south side.  It is used as an office by Warren Transport.
Photographed 8/13/12
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Pleasant Corners School


No information found about where Pleasant Corners school was moved from, or the date it was built.  It is located NW of the downtown Des Moines, area at 1350 E. Washington Ave.  This is at the NW corner of Washington and E. 14th St.  There is a brick building at this corner which used to be Whittier School, which faces Washington St.  Apparently at one time Pleasant Corners was moved here as an addition to the school on its north side.  By 1998 the building was used as the Boys & Girls Club of Central Iowa, but appeared to be vacant at the time of our photo.  I was told by the neighbor on the north side of the school that the Pleasant Corners building is to be made into an art gallery.
Photographed 8/13/12
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

1834 Methodist Church

This 1834 Methodist Church was the first church in Iowa, built in Dubuque in Washington Square.  It was also used as a school.  It has been relocated to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
Photographed 8/17/11
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

State Fair Grounds, Des Moines

This school is just a replica.  They had a real school which was moved here in 1968 and we never got a shot of it.  Last year it was so infested with termites that they tore it down at the end of the fair.  For this season, they built this nice replica, which we photographed yesterday.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

West Des Moines, IA

Visiting Des Moines and all the tourist stuff over there in October 2006, while in West Des Moines we came across this preserved school.  Bennett School. Built 1926-1927. Used until at least 1941 and then used as a home.  Originally on Fuller Rd and 50th St., now on Fuller Rd east of Grand Ave, moved there ca.1996. 
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