"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
>
> > etc.  It's not going to be EXACT, but I hope to have a model (and scene)
> > that's good enough for people in this area to look at it and say, "Hey,
> > that's the old school on Colony Road."  That would make my day.
> >
> Old school houses exert a real attraction.  I think the meaning might be
> different for everyone.  There was an abandoned schoolhouse near where I
> grew up.  I would see it as I rode with my parents, to-ing and fro-ing.
>   I would have fantasies about living in it or having and artist's
> studio in it.  Then one year someone actually bought it and fixed it up
> to live in.  The person was rumored to be an artist.  I was green with
> envy.  Felt like my very fantasy had been stolen.  Currently I share a
> studio in an old schoolhouse nearby.  Four stories walkup with very high
> ceilings.  Sweaty but charming.

:-)

There are several schools in this area that look similar to this.  I can
think of 4 off-hand.  Two are abandoned, one is being lived in, and the
other is now a landscaping business.  This poor old school is pretty far
gone, I'm afraid.  On the back side near the roof, there is an entire
section of bricks missing, the foundation is full of cracks, and the list
goes on.  But not having experience with restoration, maybe those things
could be fixed.  For me, the problems just add to the charm and the mystery.

-- 
Jeremy

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