{"id":7846,"date":"2016-08-31T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2017-07-22T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T04:46:38","slug":"st-ansgar-school-will-be-torn-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/st-ansgar-school-will-be-torn-down\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Ansgar school will be torn down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StAnsgarSchool.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 4, 2015:<\/strong>\u00a0Detailed view of the brickwork at the southeast corner of the St. Ansgar Elementary building. (Photo also used in <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/what-will-happen-to-st-ansgar-elementary\/\">May 4 blog post<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The St. Ansgar school district voted to sell its former elementary building to a local development group that plans to have it torn down, <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/news\/local\/edc-to-purchase-st-ansgar-school-building\/article_cf6b3220-93e2-5801-87c6-65069c93d109.html\">the <em>Mitchell County Press-News\u00a0<\/em>reports<\/a>\u00a0(via the <em>Mason City Globe Gazette<\/em>). The building was the high school in town for much of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>There was a proposal to save the building, but the city would have needed to take interim possession and that would have cost $100,000 for insurance alone, the article says. A community group then would have had to raise $3-5 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/mcpress\/news\/local\/st-ansgar-elementary-building-still-not-sold\/article_5d063edf-4cfc-5a35-9d32-cc6e834a1ee5.html\">The board changed its mind.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 4, 2015:\u00a0Detailed view of the brickwork at the southeast corner of the St. Ansgar Elementary building. (Photo also used in May 4 blog post.) The St. Ansgar school district voted to sell its former elementary building to a local &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/st-ansgar-school-will-be-torn-down\/\">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-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}