The Haunting Abandoned 100-Year-Old School: An Urban Exploration Experience

My mom graduated from this school in 1937. I attended 4th through 6th grade here from 1960-1963. Your video brought back so many memories. It’s been heart breaking to see it deteriorate over all of these years. When the previous owner had the school, he contracted my brother to remove all the cast iron radiators from all of the rooms. He said it was in rough shape then. Thank you for posting this video.

In the late 1950s, many school districts "centralized", a process in which small, rural one- and two-room elementary schools were incorporated into larger, centralized school buildings. This building was converted from "Silver Creek High School" (which both my parents attended) into a 3-6 elementary school in 1960. I was in the first group of elementary students who attended this school which became known as the "Main Street Elementary" or just the "Main Street School." I remember all the classrooms from my four years there. The large room at the back of the building was the cafeteria. One floor directly above was the gym. The large classroom on the second floor was the art room and the even larger room on the third floor was the music room. I don't know what the tiered room on the second floor was used for in the original high school, but in the early sixties it was used for audio-visual presentations and as a room for instrumental music lessons. I was in the elementary band that rehearsed on the stage, and I also sang in chorus. I eventually became a music teacher myself. At age 70 now, I am amazed at all the memories this video has revived from when I was age seven through eleven. I'd love to talk to you more about this building.

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Thanks for the memories! Graduated there in 1950. I often brag about this school and recall the very wide range of subjects offered here. One fourth of us took the college entrance track, offering latin, chemistry,biology, physics, algebra,intermediate algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and solid geometry. And if course, language and history. Band and orchestra and choir were options for all tracks. The automotive, metal shop, wood shop, electrical shop were great, for a town of 3000. Then there was homemaking and commercial tracks. Any grad was prepared for employment. The big gym and auditorium were loved. Management thought that the sports field was too far from the school and that was an unfortunate reason why the central school was built. Instead of refurbishing this solid building. Asbestos was a further excuse.... an engineer could have told the board that there is no hazard in handling asbestos insulation: the problem was the asbestos dust clouds at the insulation factory.

This was great! My spouse and I both attended this school. Closed after I attended 6th grade so in 79 I would say.

I grew up in Silver Creek in the 90s and we used to sneak in and hang out in there. It brought back so many memories of friends I haven't thought of in years, sadly many of them are passed away, but this video brought back happy memories.❤😊

I was part of the last 6th grade class to "graduate" from this building in 1979. Somewhere I likely have the black and gold t-shirt that commemorated our class as such... all our names were listed on the back. During warm weather, I used to walk here from my home across town.

My mother went to high school here and I went to elementary school in the 60's. It is so sad, I don't even recognize many of the rooms anymore. One of the large rooms on the 3rd floor was the choral room. We've watched it deteriorate over the years wondering how it looked on the inside. Thank you so much for filming this.

1978/79 was the last school year it was used as a school. It was the only year I attended this building and it was in pretty rough shape then. If memory serves the music room and library were on the 3rd floor, health office and art room on the second, main office was to the right of the entrance looking at the building. The cafeteria was at the back of the building, I think 2nd floor. There were no lockers in the hallways, just open coat racks with wire shelves across the top and a shoe/boot shelf. My classroom was the second on the left, first floor if you entered using the ramp with the steps at the back of the building.

I believe they can’t tear it down because of the asbestos in it. And renovation would be a lot of money, so I think it’s just gonna rot away there. Always wanted to go inside so it’s super cool to see, My dad went there.

The last really big room 3rd floor- was the chorus / music room ❣️🎶

My dad attended school there as did I! Remember well walking the halls- the stair cases- the teachers - running the projector in the AV room ( and Mr. Wilson) and so many other memories. Performing on the stage- climbing ropes in the gym- and oh, so many wonderful classmates. We were lucky to have experienced attending school in this fine building in the days- very sad to go back to town and see this rotting away-- watching the video, could recall the entire place of my youth by heart!

I attended that school from 2nd grade until 5th. I was part of the only 2nd grade class to attend that school, due to over-flow, from the K-2 school that was across the street. I performed on that stage in a Mary Poppins musical as well. Brings back many memories. The room at

Nice video. I posted four of the inside of this school several years ago, and I see a lot of things haven't changed too much since then. I've been in there many times over a period of two years, with permission of the prior owner, to collect and restore truckloads of items. Still working on those to this day.

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Hope this place gets renovated, would be sad to see it go.

Very atmospheric and impressively filmed.

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What a beautiful building. I love old schools like this. There was one like this in a town I lived in as a kid in the 70’s. I found out a few years after we moved, it burned down. Too bad schools don’t look like this anymore.