{"id":14214,"date":"2022-07-27T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2022-07-25T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:13:21","slug":"eldora-school-demolished-15-years-after-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/eldora-school-demolished-15-years-after-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Eldora school demolished 15 years after closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while for a long time I would check the Eldora newspaper’s website to see if there was any progress on demolition of the 1916-17 school building. Nothing kept happening, so I let it slide. But after the Gladbrook school finally came down<\/a> this summer, I thought about it again.<\/p>\n

It was demolished earlier this year, according to news story snippets from late March<\/a> and mid-June.<\/a> Both the Eldora Herald-Ledger<\/em> and Iowa Falls Times-Citizen<\/em> websites only display a few sentences before a paywall kicks in, but that was enough for me to see…<\/p>\n

HEY THAT’S MY PICTURE!!<\/a>\u00a0A photo of the side of the school with all the windows boarded up, taken in 2015,\u00a0was posted on this blog<\/a> in April 2017 and printed in the Times-Citizen<\/em> on March 23 without my knowledge. Eldora Historical Society, would you like to explain yourself?<\/p>\n

Based on a T-C<\/em> snippet<\/a> and Iowa Department of Education building lists, it looks like I was a year off on the beginning of Eldora-New Providence and Hubbard-Radcliffe starting sharing as South Hardin, so that has been corrected in the timeline to 2007<\/a>. Based on a\u00a0snippet from the H-L<\/em> in May<\/a>, the gym\u00a0continued to be used after the school was closed. It was built in 1958-59, according to an application to get Eldora’s downtown<\/a> on the National Register of Historic Places, and the minimal connection between the two structures would have permitted continued use.<\/p>\n

(I didn’t intend to write about two cases of reproduction-without-notification, but they just happened to crop up within a few-day span.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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