{"id":6152,"date":"2015-06-03T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:32:47","slug":"sabula-school-will-be-demolished-where-does-easternmost-title-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/sabula-school-will-be-demolished-where-does-easternmost-title-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabula school will be demolished; where does ‘easternmost’ title go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The easternmost school building in Iowa is on a collision course with the wrecking ball.\u00a0The Easton Valley school district earlier this month<\/del> in May approved demolition of the school in Sabula<\/a>, reports the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.<\/p>\n

After demolition in Sabula, the easternmost existing school building in Iowa will be in Clinton. It’s\u00a0the old Lyons High School on Main Avenue (Lincoln Highway\/Old US 30A before the present Lyons-Fulton Bridge was built), which has been abandoned for decades.<\/p>\n

But what about active buildings? Time to go exploring, and by exploring I mean spend an hour on Google Maps and use up my entire allotment of Clinton Herald<\/em> articles…<\/p>\n

Both<\/em> Buell Elementary and Horace Mann Elementary on Clinton’s north side closed in 2007<\/a>.\u00a0The St.\u00a0Irenaeus parochial school (if the school part is still there)<\/a> is to the east of the latter two but isn’t active either.<\/p>\n

Until six months ago, Lyons Middle School was the easternmost active one, but it closed over Thanksgiving break when Clinton merged its two middle schools into one new building.<\/a>\u00a0After that we move south into the main part of Clinton, but the Kirkwood building now hosts the Head Start program.<\/p>\n

The easternmost active school building in Iowa overall<\/em> is Trinity Elementary, on US 67 near the Clinton County Courthouse, and Prince of Peace High School is the second-easternmost.<\/del>\u00a0(SEE UPDATE.) The latter (Prince of Peace) is on Fourth Street two blocks north of the 1888 Roosevelt school<\/a>, which was used as the Clinton school district’s administration building<\/a> for a few years.<\/p>\n

The easternmost active public<\/em> school building in Iowa is Eagle Heights Elementary, back on the north side of Clinton, which opened in 2007 as the replacement for the two schools mentioned three paragraphs ago.<\/p>\n

(TL;DR Clinton has lots of old school buildings as the result of an aggressive construction campaign and declining enrollment.)<\/p>\n

(EDIT: Fixed date element.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 9\/18\/17: A reader told me Trinity is no longer open. That makes Clinton Prince of Peace the easternmost active school building in Iowa. It’s also the easternmost active private school and K-12 site in Iowa. Clinton’s Eagle Heights Elementary remains the easternmost active public school building in Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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