Third of three blog posts related to a May 23 DNR press release.
August 4, 2015: The former Elma Elementary School.
Five years ago the Howard-Winneshiek School District voted to close its attendance center in Elma, the second of three sites outside of Cresco that were shuttered in a short span of time. The building was given to the city.
The city has done what it can to make use of it, but ultimately decided that the best course of action was to tear down the original two-story building while keeping the gymnasium and day-care addition. The gym will become the town library and a multi-purpose room. A small clinic will be built nearby.
Elma got a DNR grant for asbestos abatement (always the asbestos abatement) and “deconstruction” to renovate and build on the site.