I miss the abandoned houses you used to explore, usually with lots of stuff left behind. You made them more interesting than ones I see recently from other channels. The motels and resorts were interesting also. This school was pretty spooky. Thanks for the tour. I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2024. ❤
I agree about this school being pretty spooky The city of Pittsburgh, several their school buildings that are now abandoned. After being closed for many years I live near one on the north side. Merry Christmas to you and all of your family. Many bright blessings to you and all of your family. May you think positive pray for the best believing yourself be optimistic and be strong let no one but yourself control your own destiny. Let no one tell you you can’t do something try and do to the best of your ability. I also like going to look at old churches I live near Saint Anthony’s Chapel. Beautiful old Chapel still in use today.
Well my old Junior high became a furniture store and then now it's apartments.. I helped move the building along with numerous students one Saturday and Sunday in 1974 .. they rented a several semis and all the kids came to school and we moved it to the new school all the stuff the books and everything.. desks.tables .. I couldn't even imagine that they would ask the kids to come in on the weekend and move their school today ....
Aww JP, you are in my neck of the woods. It is such a beautiful building, and a strong Catholic community that tried to keep it. The area that you thought was a teachers lounge was really the rooms for the nuns. There were dormitories back in the day. Thank you for taking me along on the tour
That place is amazing, JP, very old. Looks like it could be the 19960s Era, but it is strange to see full bathrooms, which look like small apartments. The blue stairs are beautiful and very detailed. I had never seen stairs so well made. It was shameful to let that go to waste.
My mother went to Catholic school back in the 40s and 50s. She said that the boys and girls had separate entrances and were in separate classes. They were not allowed to talk or associate with the boys whatsoever. i had both black and green chalkboards when i went to school. one class had a blue chalkboard. was the only one i ever saw too lol. I am with you on that purple tile. love the color. would love to have it if they tore the place down. Btw up here in Mass. the majority of old building like this get turned into affordable housing. we do have some that are sitting around but lots are converted. I will be moving into an old Mill sometime next year and it has all the original features. brick walls and hard wood floors as well as the high ceilings with exposed iron pipes. I am looking forward to it as the rent as gotten so high that i cannot afford to live in a regular apartment anymore.
What a grand old building! 💚 I love that staircase! I sure hope it sees restoration soon, and that whoever restores it, keeps all of the original architectural gems. Although it is considered vandalism, some of that graffiti was spectacular! 😊
Love the abandoned stuff. The energies I feel going into these place are crazy sometimes. Good condition for the time it’s been abandoned. Thanks for showing us and when a door says “do not enter” I can’t help myself either. Lol 🤗🎄❄️
Very awesome and so interesting! Officially abandoned for sure🎄lol Perfect for this holiday season, Merry Christmas! The building is incredibly big, so I think you may be right, and I agree that I bet it will be restored into an apartment building. I can just imagine the kids and people bustling back and forth and the many activities going on. The room that had the small stage, I feel like it might have been one of the music rooms. As you said the blue staircase is iconic and has a very ornate design as well as the old radiators with the intricate patterns! I also wanted to add that I too thought the smaller staircases were very unique. The whole place was fascinating. The linoleum with the star bursts was really cool and it was fun to see the old black and green chalkboards, I'm not sure which one was first, but I do remember them being black too. Fantastic photos and a great video JP, thank you! 💙
Yay I love your abandoned exploring videos Jay they are the best and I have always loved them since I watched your video of the Ski resort in New York, it was my first video of yours that I watched. Thank you this was an amazing place Jay . Happy Christmas to you and your family xx 🎄🎅
That would be a great building to save If possible. That was a big ass school. You know me and how I feel about old buildings. Repurposes if possible. Thànks for having me along to see such a cool old place.❤😊
What an awesome explore ..love the beautiful blue staircase ..The layout is like a corn maze ...I would be so lost ! Fun to find the Christmas tree ...yep , it's abandoned 😀So many floors ...they really got a good workout every day .. Yes, remember green and black chalkboards . I think the black came first .. Hope someone does save the building before it is too far gone ....lots of potential . Love abandoned explores ...so glad you made it in time to share with us ! Take care and have a Merry Christmas .!👍💙
I agree it’s a shame the building has sat abandoned for this long Several beautiful buildings that sit abandoned for many years, just to be torn down, because they sat too long and cost too much to bring back to life Merry Christmas to you may you have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year may you continue to think positive pray for the best believe in yourself, be optimistic, and be strong
Great explore!! Thanks for bringing us along. Yeah I think the nuns were using the bathrooms or maybe the kids were from homes that needed to bathe at school due to circumstances at home. Maybe some students lived there as well. Wishing you and your family a very merry christmas and happy holidays. Stay safe and don't eat too much so you can get back out and explore LOL jk.
Super cool abandoned explore. I love these. It's always fun trying to figure out what the rooms were used for. There must be a lunch room and/or a gym there someplace. Perhaps the auditorium doubled as that? It would be a very nice apartment building. Those classrooms would make nice sized apartments. That staircase was gorgeous. Yes, more than likely the smaller rooms upstairs were dorm rooms for the nuns and others that worked there. I had 2 aunts that were nuns and their room (they shared one) in the convent was about the size of the bigger ones. Some nuns had much smaller rooms. Think of the movie, Sister Act to get an idea of how this school was probably run and laid out. I had some friends that went to a Catholic high school. Boys and girls went there but the boys' classrooms were on one side of the school and the girls' on the other. There was a big commons area in the middle (main entrance) which is where the offices and cafeteria/gym were. Girls and boys could co-mingle there and they did eat lunch together. Another Catholic school in my area was grades K -8th. Classes were coed from K - 6th grade. 7th and 8th grade the girls and boys were separated except for lunch time and recess/break time.
JP, really enjoyed your video and I shared it on my community tab! Love the blue staircase! We had green chalkboards in Fillmore Elementary School and in Milburn High School.
I love the abandoned building videos you do! But then, I also like the other ones, too! They converted and old brick multi-story elementary school in the town I'm from back there into apartments. They look really nice. I know where this is. I also used to live in that area, too. I'll keep it quiet.
Excellent photography as always! Thank you for taking us on this journey! I've enjoyed all your videos and I really liked this one. Again, thanks for taking us out on these adventures.
It’s nice to see these beautiful old school buildings still around and many of them being turned into apartments not just sitting abandoned I live near Saint Anthony’s Chapel in Troy Hill beautiful chapel built in 1892. Still an operation to this day. Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. May you think positive pray for the best believe in yourself be optimistic and be strong many blessings to you and all of your family.
This was a truly awesome explore. I really love the abandoned explores and hope to see more in the future. Hopefully they do something with that place. It would be a crying shame to see such a magnificent looking place just waste away. I think it could make a nice apartment complex or even a hotel with that grand staircase. Will be watching for the next adventure and until then, you and your family have a Merry Christmas, stay safe and God bless. Steve in Oklahoma
Loved the explore! Wow, what a place. These Polish folks built a beautiful school for their children. It’s heartbreaking to see what vandals have done to it. The place seems solid, though, like you said and hopefully it will be restored to its former glory. I loved all the charming little staircases and side rooms. They don’t build them like that anymore! Thank you for taking us for this incredible tour! Much appreciated. Merry Christmas to you and your family; God bless you also in 2024……🌝
Fascinating place! That ornate, blue staircase is probably the most striking architectural feature. The upper floors with the different colored tile work and unique floors were likely nuns quarters, which would also explain the smaller rooms. Cool that you found the Christmas tree still in the attic! This was a really interesting change of pace from your recent outdoor explorations, and I couldn't help but be glued to the screen wondering what you might find in the next room and then the next. Abandoned places is what you were doing most when I first found your channel. I love the variety of places you film these days, which keeps your channel endlessly entertaining. Also, your camera skills have improved, considerably. You're a pro, Jay!💙Would love a revisit in the future when they renovate. It looks structurally sound. Thanks for a Great video!! Wishing you & everyone here a wonderful Holiday Season and a very Merry Christmas!!🎄❤💫✨
That last bathroom! I had flashbacks of that damn powder soap they used to have from dispensers from that era.. it was sorta like powder laundry detergent… very cool place!
I haven't even started watching but for the first minute or so and that place looks so cool. The stairwell railings and other smaller details mean this is going to be an explore I won't want to miss any of. Thanks in advance JP!
I love this video and all ur abandoned videos that is how I first found ur channel a few years ago.These are some of my favorite types of videos but I also enjoy all ur stuff u put out so thanks for all ur hard work
Hello JP that school was pretty neat and a whole lot different the Blackboard came out first then the green board then of course your Smart Board I started School in 1967 I had blackboards and green boards happy holidays to you and your family🎄❄⛄❄☃️🎁🎄 take care love from upstate New York❤😊
I love it! As long as you don't start with the "Ghost Hunter" videos. That is what I have found that a lot of You Tube pple do. I have deleted multiple people that started out exploring abandon locations then for some reason they started getting into the "haunted abandon places" which, most are "set up" ' 🤦♀
I have also unsubbed quite a few channels where the "explorers" have gone on a hunt for Casper. His cartoon show was canceled decades ago. It's the live ones you got to worry about!
Hey Jp awsome video. Those top rooms were probably where tbe nuns lived. Merry christmas to you and yours, stay safe and hope to see so much more content from u next year.
Great explore video! Glad to see ya do an abandoned building again. I know it takes a lot of time and research. Much appreciated from a fellow explorer.
Great explore I kept forgetting to comment on doing an abandoned video. Yes I think it would be great to incorporate some abandoned places like this into the channel again.
My apartment is in a bldg that used to be a luxury hotel back in the 1800's.. they renovated it& now it's being used for section 8 (low income) housing. Bravo 👏 to you for not breaking in. I'm a paranormal investigator & I only got to places that are public, obviously open ( have permission ) & when I'm invited.. If it says no trespassing or its locked I don't go in
Really cool! Love old abandoned buildings. Always have. Found some info and pics of the place online, seems like they've cleaned up the place over the last few years at least. These old abandoned schools always seem to be left with like desks, chairs, books, everything but was impressed this one was clean (one school I watched the school district just had a new school built and left everything from computers, office equipment, desks etc. gave it to the city who was like WE DIDNT KNOW EVERYTHING WAS LEFT....like the teachers and kids just got up one day and just walked out. Smh. Anyways great vid!!!
Hopefully something good happens to this pretty old building .That blue staircase was awesome....so many cool things here very nice explore I think it was great... I cant believe there were paper towels left 😳😂 This reminded me of my of high school..excellent video as always 👍👍 !!
This is so good. Thank you for sharing this with us. Catholic elementary schools have always been co-ed. The high schools for the most part are all girls or all boys. Where I used to live there is a co-ed high school. It was established in the mid 80s. Hope you are doing well. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🏻🦌❤️💚
That’s was a neat old school building still in pretty good shape could remolding in two apartment we need started saving old buildings and there history
20:04 that linoleum or whatever would freak me out... getting up at 2am to get some water and seeing spiders everywhere on the floor...not the beat design idea haha
I agree with you I like the older buildings and older architecture better these newer buildings are just so bland If you would like to check out a really old chapel stilling operation to this day, check out Saint Anthony’s Chapel in Troy Hill Merry Christmas to you may you think positive pray for the best believe in yourself be optimistic, and be strong
You’re an inspiration man. Love the content. One question, is google maps how you find most of your places, or does it come from word of mouth as well? I’ve been trying to find more of these places around me to explore and film. Thanks for the good watch! Happy holidays JP
In my experience of attending Catholic schools from grade school into college the pink and blue colors were reserved for bathrooms only; (although initially confessionals were marked as men and women only). The pink and blue were obviously for modesty sake. BTW, Catholic HS's were usually girls and boys in separate buildings, that was until the late '60's early '70's.
Very interesting, spooky, yet sad. I've explore a bunch of small schools back in N.C/S.C that were more for the small community(s) that were abandoned. They had to build bigger schools for the growing population. Not only that, they were deteriorating and would cost too much to bring up-to-code.
What a great find for a "plan b" investigation. I wonder what made them put such an ornate staircase in a grade school? You covered it at a perfect pace to see everything without being too repetitive. Great old building with lots of potential.
Awsome abandoned adventure, Jay. Reminds me a bit of my grammar school, that too was a Catholic school built in the 1870s. We had 40 to 50 kids per class in all grades 1st to 8th; thus, the many different rooms. Sometimes, the classes were split up for different studies so the teachers and nuns could get a break from teaching the exact same thing for the school day. My Grandmother went there. Every subject was taught in German then. That was how things were done then. The parish was predominantly from Germany and that reflected the language. She was taught English in the 1st thru 5 when all the studies were taught in English. I wonder if the same was done there, only in Polish? Blackboards date way back,before the synthetic "green boards", by many,many years. They were made of black slate. In my school the nuns had a convent separated from the school, but on the same property; along with a church and a rectory for the priests, all separate. We had to go to mass before school every Wednesday. Boy, have things changed! Great explore, stay safe and healthy. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 👍🏻🤙
It would be a shame if that building was torn down, sure hope they restore it, keeping it original as much as possible, are the handrails on the blue staircase metal or wood? really cool explore for sure.
