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No More Pencils: 1940
The last remaining Second Empire schoolhouse in the United States, the Fourth Ward School is now a museum.
March 1940. "Abandoned school. Virginia City, Nevada." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
I had no idea
I had no idea until seeing this Shorpy photo that a fine restaurant in Raleigh, NC, is named after an architectural style. Learn something every day.
Pre-restoration
Kodachrome slide I took in August 1965.
Standing strong today
In 1940 this school had only been abandoned for a few years; its last class graduated in 1936. It endured a total of fifty years of disuse before it was re-opened in 1986 as a beautifully restored museum.
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