{"id":5333,"date":"2014-09-26T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2014-09-27T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T06:15:06","slug":"some-little-school-demolition-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/some-little-school-demolition-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some little school demolition notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This turned into an all-school week without me quite realizing it! Anyway, here are a couple little items of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although I don&#8217;t typically track big-city buildings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/09\/19\/site-former-sabin-school-undergoing-transformation\/15904239\/\">Iowa City is tearing down<\/a> a school built in 1917-18.<\/li>\n<li>Also on the big-city end, Mason City doesn&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to do with its <a href=\"http:\/\/kimt.com\/2014\/09\/02\/public-voices-opinion-on-future-of-historic-elementary-school\/\">closed Madison Elementary<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but neighbors <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want it to become apartments.<\/li>\n<li>Williamsburg Elementary, the original high school, was <a href=\"http:\/\/yourweeklypaper.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/demolition-beginning-on-elementary-structure\/\">torn down this summer.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>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 &#8217;11-12 or &#8217;12-13.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartofiowa.net\/~dmreece\/Home.html\">The &#8220;Roundhouse&#8221; gym remains.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other demolition news, the abandoned Econo Lodge at the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/April06\/us151.html\">I-80\/US 151 interchange<\/a> is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This turned into an all-school week without me quite realizing it! Anyway, here are a couple little items of note: Although I don&#8217;t typically track big-city buildings, Iowa City is tearing down a school built in 1917-18. Also on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/some-little-school-demolition-notes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}