Some little school demolition notes

This turned into an all-school week without me quite realizing it! Anyway, here are a couple little items of note:

  • Although I don’t typically track big-city buildings, Iowa City is tearing down a school built in 1917-18.
  • Also on the big-city end, Mason City doesn’t know what it’s going to do with its closed Madison Elementary — but neighbors don’t want it to become apartments.
  • Williamsburg Elementary, the original high school, was torn down this summer.
  • A call to New Providence confirmed that the school there was torn down in August 2012. (Aerial photos from summer 2012 are not currently available, and so it was a question of whether it happened in ’11-12 or ’12-13.) The “Roundhouse” gym remains.

In other demolition news, the abandoned Econo Lodge at the I-80/US 151 interchange is gone.

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