There are plenty of sad stories about abandoned Iowa schools, so when there’s a success, we should give credit where it’s due.
East Monona hasn’t been a school district since 2004, and the building in Moorhead soon had problems, but the gym and nearby areas have been restored enough to host a wedding reception, the Sioux City Journal reports. The building got new owners in 2011.
The description of what happened to the building in the intervening decade is a warning sign of just how fast a once-proud building can fall past the point of no return. This one, at least part of it, was saved in time.