Huge 110 year old Abandoned School House w/ Antique Plumbing & Incredible Ceilings 

I really appreciate that! I always hope it’s evident in my videos that I just want to document these old incredible forgotten places before they are gone! Sometimes I can find more history and I try to share it, whether good or bad! I love all history! Thank you very much for watching and the kind words! :)

Thank you Kappy. I’m confused at the “leave out history” comment. I do appreciate your time spent documenting these structures

@@BlueButterfly20252 ... at the very bottom of the comments is a comment about going woke and history and segregation and things Kappy said. Most people love what he does and enjoy hearing the history of the homes, etc. We are all just stating our opinions... no harm done.

@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 That is one well built structure. The students must have enjoyed learning there especially when it was the newest school in the area. Based on the pile of gypsum in the first floor hall and the studs in the nearby classroom, the modification of what must have been the girl's bathroom with a tub, and the oven upstairs it appears someone may have lived there for a time. That small room on the second floor was possibly the principal's office. The front portico is a thing of envy that would be a welcomed addition to many homes today. That building would make a great regional museum, but that would require a tidy sum at this point. Another excellent video and for me an instant favorite.

​@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773your videos are so truly amazing and so is your voice , respect , interest and careful care for the places you explore ❤ Thank you so much - Hugs from Denmark

Very interesting,thank you for sharing with us

We also called them cloakrooms in our old elementary school in Baltimore, which was built in the 1920s. I went there in the 1950s and early '60s, so I'm right up there with you.

Glad it found new life and wasn’t torn down! Always a better option! Thank you very much for watching!! :)

Would be an awesome home if restored and saved! Nothing like a brick house! Thank you very much for watching!! :)

​@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773typically, these old brick buildings from this era, the bricks are the main part of the structure. Unlike brick homes of today, where they build the house and then construct a layer of bricks as a form of "siding", the brick walls were constructed first (most of the time, 2 - 3 brick thick), and then the inside was finished out. Much sturdier than modern construction

I suspect that all the paint has lead in it. The cost of removing it, I'm guessing, would be a real problem.

Do Jim Crow laws make you uncomfortable?

What in the world are you blabbering about? Lots of horrible things happened in the past. My husband’s relatives perished in Buchenwald in a camp. But I appreciate the history and the maintenance of the site as a rememberance.

As if the folly of men rubs off on buildings. Damnatio Memoriae in the name of racial reconcialition is an absolute non argument from the ESG fanatics. They're a bunch of rabid fools who always throw the baby along with the bath water. This building just needs a new owner who would convert it into a house full of love. It could be anybody... Yes, even an Afro American, provided he harbors dreams instead of spite!

who's gonna be offended? The white folks when he talks about a segregated school house ? They're the reason it was segregated. 🙄

We learn from our history. It should always be remembered very bad ideas that never need to resurface again

A place where young people were really taught to read, write, and do arithmetic. I saw lots of mud dabbers nest on the one blackboard.

Thank you so much!! Yes I thought the bathroom was absolutely fascinating!! Really showed how long the place had been empty! Incredible how well the slate roof has held up over the years! Thank you for watching!! :)

I thought the same thing! What a nice house❤

Same here. Did give me an idea, though. I'm going to see maybe someone put old photos on the internet. I have a few outside on the fields, but none of the school.

The one with the inset shelves does appear to be that, and the adjoining room with the oven (probably added after the school was closed) may have been for art class based on the two large tables, one having a recessed top.

How fascinating are they as old as the school?Thank you for sharing!! Much appreciated! :)

I don't know if they were manufactured before the 1920s, but it's possible they are as old as the school. They were a very new concept at the time. Indoor plumbing was just becoming more affordable to the masses. Flushing toilets were around as early as the 1870s, but were only found in wealthy homes.@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773

Thank you very much for watching!! :)

Would make an awesome house! Thank you for the kind words and watching!! :)

If you watch the European Urbex explorers, that’s the way they made the toilets over there.

The tanks held the water to flush the toilet.

Not really, you can still buy them new.

I really appreciate that thank you very much for watching!! :)

Yeah that perplexed me! Maybe some strange addition in the 1950’s-1960’s before the school closed down. Would love to hear ideas! Thanks for watching!

those are awesome!

Uh no, that building is not salvageable. It’s obvious it’s having foundation issues, and would be too expensive to possibly fix. I’m actually glad to see this building fall in. It has too much dark history.

@@Ronin.Samurai From what I can tell the foundation and floor systems are independent from each other. The outer walls/building facade would be caving in too if that were the case but the windows, doors, and roof line remain straight and true. The foundation and footings themselves would extend a few feet below grade, but the rotting away flooring is a foot above grade as seen at 5:20. That building is far from falling in on itself Another place in the video that also confirms what I say is at 7:25 where you can see the floor separating from the buildings wall. the floor is falling in but the windows are all true. Dark history you say? What's so evil about children getting an education? This dark statement in your reply is only your silly imagination going wild.

@@jimdent351 sorry but you are completely wrong. The foundation and floor are not separated/independent of each other. They are clearly one unit. I’m no house expert, but I can tell when a foundation and the floors are separated or not. As for the dark history, if you actually did your homework, and listened to Kappy, you would know this school had segregation, which meant innocent children of a different skin color were separated from those who were white. If you knew anything about segregated schools, you would know black children had the bare minimum, such as out of date school books, broken chairs and lights, little to no heating/air conditioning, school buildings falling apart, etc, while white children had everything and had plenty of money. If you know anything about American history, you would know the horrendous crap people of different skin color had to go through, and still go through today. I’m a fellow white person, and I’m ashamed and embarrassed over the evil things we did to innocent people just because people of different skin color didn’t look and act like us white people. That school, along with the old plantations of the south, and statues condoning the evil American people of the past all need to be taken down, and completely eradicated. The evil crap us white people of America did belong in history books, that’s it.

@@Ronin.Samurai The only dark past that building has is the lack of lumens coming from it's light fixtures. It's a school for crying out loud where they taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. He says in the video that it operated during a dark time in history. What does that even mean? Is it because it operated when Europe was at war, or is it because they only taught white children? So because only white children attended class here that the buildings history is dark? Right now there's a war in Ukraine, and Israel is at war too. Does that mean we should tear down every operational school in America right now? You're comment is ludicrous IMO.

@@jimdent351 would absolutely be worth saving!! Such a beautiful building!! Nothing like solid brick walls! The slate is roof has held up amazingly well over the years of neglect as well! Would be awesome if this place found new life! Thank you for watching!! :)

Our janitors used the same type of floor sweep. It was a dk.green and smelled really good.!

Thank you very much for the kind words and watching!! :)

hull, not hill, obviously! 🙄

Agreed! Thank you very much for watching!! :)

Me too! Thank you for watching!! :)

@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 Always a pleasure watching

Thank you for watching!! :)