Friday, July 24, 2020

The Big School in Corinth



This is the second Corinth School built circa 1930.

I've always had a soft spot for the "prairie grandeur" of the schools built around this time.  Schools for lots of first generation kids looking forward to a bright future.


That's quite a tilt on the bell tower.


From this angle the flagpole is almost straight up.


The cracked and failing foundation is much taller than it appears in the photos.


Ending on a positive note...North Dakota has "living skies" too!

Photographed on December 18, 2018.

4 comments:

  1. The building looks fairly well kept, until you see the tilted bell tower. I wonder if, because the foundation is so tall, the basement was used as classrooms too.

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    1. The schools from the 1930's all seem to have a tall foundation (three feet or more). Not sure what that was all about.

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