Schools

Cadmus High School

Built in 1928 to serve the rural Gallia County community of Cadmus, Ohio, this small school closed its doors in the late-1980s.

Campton High School, located in Campton, Kentucky, was opened in 1942. It was the first publically funded high school in Wolfe County, constructed during the Great Depression with funding from the Federal Works Project Adminsitration (WPA).

Campton High School

Cass Technical High School

Lewis Cass Technical High School is a four-year high school in Detroit, Michigan. The school is named in honor of Lewis Cass, an American military officer and later politician who served as governor of the Michigan Territory from 1813 to 1831.

Cove School

Closed in 1991, Cove School was located in downtown Weirton, West Virginia.

Edmonton High School

This abandoned two-story school in Edmonton, Kentucky is collapsing and re-use for this historic structure does not seem imminent.

Frenchburg Presbyterian College

Located in a community of only 500, the Frenchburg, Kentucky Presbyterian College was the first high school in the county and offered a broad education for 50 years.

Georgetown, Ohio School

Grassy, Kentucky School

Green Township Ohio School

The Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio school opened in 1925.

Haldeman Elementary

Haldeman used to be a much larger town. Once boasting a brick factory in nearby Soldier, a school, and several businesses during its boom times, it is today a quiet residential community of rural Carter county. This particular school was built in 1937 with an expansion in the 1960s.

Heberle School

This sizeable school, located in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio, was located in one of the worst neighborhoods in the midwest in terms of poverty and crime. The entire area is being redeveloped, with a mix of upper, middle, and lower income townhouses, apartments and condos being constructed at a record-breaking pace. The fate of this hulk from the rough times of the past is in question.

Higginsport, Ohio School

Located in Higginsport, Ohio, the Higginsport School has been closed since 1987, although it is prepped for future restoration.

Ironton High School

Erected in 1922, this grand classical brick school in Ironton, Ohio was demolished in 2007 and rebuilt. Take a peek at its present condition on the last public viewing day!

Ironton High School

Kentucky School for the Deaf

Lakin Industrial School for Colored Boys

The Lakin Industrial School for Colored Boys, north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was founded by three African-American state legislators that created several state-funded reform institutions for blacks between 1919 and 1921. The school closed in 1956, only two years after the Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, and was demolished in late 2006 after decades of abandonment.

Lenore Junior High School

The Lenore Junior High School is located in Lenore, West Virginia, a former coal camp town north of Williamson.

M.C. Napier High School

The Napier High School in Hazard, Kentucky opened in 1953 and remained in use until 2005. In only a few short years, the property has become battered and beaten, and sports a trashed interior and a very leaky roof.

Middleport Elementary School

The Middleport Elementary School in Middleport, Ohio closed in 2003 after new facilities were constructed.

Middleport High School

The Middleport High School in Middleport, Ohio relocated in the 1990s and the building was reused for the Middleport Middle School until closed in 2003.

Middleport Park Street School

Middleport's Park Street School was constructed in the late 19th century, and was closed in the early 1950s. It was used for storage for over five decades before a structural failure caused the building to be demolished.

Middleport School System's Central Building

The original school structure for Middleport, this historic building was reused as offices for the Board of Education and the school system for Meigs county. It was vacated in the summer of 2003 in favor of a new location.

Millersburg Military Institute

The Millersburg Military Institute was founded in 1852 in Millersburg, Kentucky an agriculturally-centered community. After over 150-years of service, the academy was forced to close due to dwindling enrollment. The school reopened in 2009 under a new name and promising growth.

Monitor School

The Monitor School, located in Coal Grove, Ohio, was constructed in 1905 and has been closed since 1984 when new facilities were constructed outside of town. The building was envisioned as a community and retirement center but was never restored due to neighborhood opposition.

Mt Sterling High School

Abandoned in the 1990s, the Mt. Sterling, Kentucky High School historic structure has remained vacant. Unfortunately, the owner has no plans for the building, so it remains neglected and open to the elements.

Mt. Sterling High School's auditorium.

Olive Hill High School

Closed for good in 1994, the Olive Hill, Kentucky High School was on the brink of demolition when a 22" snowfall caused the gymnasium roof to collapse. The interior had been stripped of its former glory, and it seemed as if it was deeded over to neglect and vandalism. Thankfully, a former mayor of the city purchased the building and then proceeded to deed it over to a historical society. The gymnasium has been rebuilt and the property is being slowly renovated.

Pomeroy Junior High School

Pomeroy's Junior High School was constructed in 1929 and vacated in 1970, when the Pomeroy, Rutland and Middleport, Ohio schools consolidated into the Meigs Local School District.

Ruddles Mills School

The Ruddles Mill School in rural Bourbon County, Kentucky was dedicated on October 1, 1923 to serve the small community of several hundred that was named for Isaac Ruddell.

St Lawrence O'Toole Catholic School

St. Lawrence O’Toole School was a former catholic school in Ironton, Ohio. Constructed in 1910, the 11,910 square-foot institute served grades one through eight until the early 1980s. The building was repurposed shortly thereafter into a community center that lasted only a brief period.

Utica School

Constructed originally in the late-19th century, the Utica, Indiana School was rebuilt during the Great Depression and used until the start of the 21st century.

Waterloo School

Plans to establish a high school in Waterloo, Ohio, a farming community located in northern Lawrence County, began in 1916 and became a reality in the following year, using the second floor of a local store. The school relocated to the former Waterloo Methodist Church building until 1930.

Plans for a permanent school structure began in 1928, and a bond issue was passed in 1929 and the new high school was opened in 1930. The Waterloo High School closed in 1961 upon completion of the Symmes Valely School.