Exploring a Abandoned School in Ohio | 1915 Architecture | Urbex
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2022
- Today we explored this abandoned school in Ohio. It was built in 1915. The gym was added later. When the school was no longer needed by the school district it was purchased by a church who turned it into a youth center. The youth center consisted of hundreds of mattresses in every single room which leads us to believe that maybe it was used for something else. This school is in a town with less than 2000 residents. The school had many interesting things around every corner. Just wait to you see the untouched cafeteria.
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I went here in the late 80’s. I had Mrs. Pauley in 1st grade, Godfrey for 2nd, Shroy for 3rd, Shoemaker for 4th, and Farley for 5th. Godfrey was only there a year, because she got caught stealing. Shoemaker lived in town and was a hard-ass teacher. Chitty was the gym teacher and a lot of people couldn’t stand him. I could tell stories about just about everything in that building!
My grandmother, Louise Pauley taught 1st grade here. My mom and my 2 aunts attended here as well. I was born in 02, and u fortunately didn’t get to meet my grandmother because she died of brain cancer in 1991. Her classroom according to my mom is at 4:55
I had Mrs. Pauley for 1st Grade! I went there K-5 from '78-84.
This is where I went to elementary school from kindergarten to 5th grade. Mr. Chitty (the sign you saw) was the best gym teacher we could have asked for. The cafeteria was WAY bigger back then lol and the paint wasn’t like that at all. I also walked through just a few weeks ago with permission from the farmer and it almost brought me to tears. So many memories there. It seems so large but there were actually trailers out back for 5th grade classrooms and the music room. There was a huge playground as well.
I went to this school up to the 5th grade it is 2 miles from my house I'm getting ready to take my kids in there and explore it they always wanted to know what my old school look like
hope that you get to check it out I would like to see this one myself Not having any luck on urban exploring commercial places these days it seems so going back to drawing board of simpler locations I guess aside from a Hopeful Old Nike site explore will see how/when that goes
I Always Imagine what it would Be like to have some like Virtual Glasses that you put on, and it Makes the Building and each Room look like how it Did like on the 1950's...
I always wanted to build a nice apartment inside an abandoned building.
Here’s your chance
I'm glad you're still uploading, really love seeing these abandoned, hidden gems, here in my home state!
I’m glad you enjoy them! I’ve got lots more coming
@@OnceOccupied I love your videos
I also went to school here in the early 90's. The principal was Mr. Early. I'm blown away on how my old elementary school has become.
My 2 sons and 3 step children all attended this school. I loved that my children were able too attend a small country school. They knew everyone they went to school with. And the fact that it had such a long history made it even cooler. Many of the previous students before them still live in our community and supported our school district. Sharing the same fond memories of attending school in this old building. Many Christmas programs and music concerts were preformed by all the children who attended the school.
So sad to see it decaying from the inside out.
Great Explore and good to see you guys back glad your still exploring
Glad to see you posting again! Awesome video 💯
I went to school here for kindergarten and 4-5 grades. It makes me sad to see how it looks now. I remember as a kindergartner being scared to go down the steps to the girls’ bathroom. And I remember the whole school sitting in the hall on the first floor at Christmas to sing carols before going on break.
Glad to see you're back :) binge watch all the episodes already hope to see more.
My old elementary!! Wow , cool video thanks for sharing!
Glad to see you're posting again. I enjoy your explorations, especially if they're in buildings I've driven by frequently, or in neighborhoods I once knew.
Great to see another video from you!! I love seeing abandoned southern Ohio!! I'm up in northern Ohio, Geauga County!! But I do enjoy coming down to Yellow Springs to visit my Daughter!
I went to school here. Greenview South. This makes me sad watching this video, seeing how it looks now. Those rooms weren't those colors while in operation of the school. I can remember every teacher I had there. Thank you for sharing.
Was wondering if you are still filming, haven't seen any new videos lately. So glad you are still here. This is a great explore. Natural decay with original peeling paint. That wall of heating was wild though. Take care and be safe.
I went to greeneview south. Crazy to see it like this
Great video! I went to school here K-6. My grandfather graduated high school in this building. I wish you'd had someone walk through with you that knew what the rooms were used for. So many memories. Thank you!
Man this place is beautiful great video guys
Thanks Alfred!
Sucks this fell into disrepair.
I love checking your videos out as someone who left Ohio to come to LA. Thanks for sharing a little piece of home.
Thanks for the love! I love sharing a little bit of nostalgia
My 3 kids, along with my father and grandmother went to this school. Also many aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was an interesting building even in it's heyday. Not sure what they were thinking when they built it as "labrynth" doesn't begin to describe it. I remember going down into the basement cafeteria many times to eat lunch with my kids. Sad that it looks that bad on the inside. It was always well kept. I have a photo of my dad sitting in from the school with his class, from about 1945. Nice video.
Man, this entire town's population is posting in here. I have family in the town just south of this school.
Thank you for sharing this. A suggestion if you're ever in the area next time: there's another abandoned elementary a few towns over where I went to school called 'North'. Both schools were once independent high schools until consolidating into one district in the 1950's, then became elementary buildings within the same school system. Both closed in the same year. Not sure who owns it now or how friendly they'd be, but it might be worth a shot.
I live RIGHT across from this school! Really cool!
I still love watching this ! It’s part of my childhood! I hate watching it fall away tho to nothing. I didn’t go to school here but some of my cousins and friends did. I also have a friend who lives across the street from here.
Pretty sweet find, I like how it was repurposed so many times now it’s just forgotten
I went to school here from third through fifth grade during the early to mid-90’s.
The "classroom" in the basement across from the furnace was the teachers lounge
I like the little hand prints cute
Always wondered how it looked inside now. I went there kindergarten through 5th thanks for showing me.
This is my elementary school! It's such a cool old building, thanks for posting this!
I went there in 78 to about 84 !
@@Visitor2020 same!
That's a huge building.Such a shame it isn't being fixed up for something,like apartments,a place for someone to live if being burned out,a community center .great video👍
The problem is who will spend the money to renovate it for housing. Cheaper to build new than to fox this.
My 2 kids went to school there. The school want to have all the schools closer together so the built a new high school and middle school and put the 2 elementary schools (1 of which you just looked at) in the old high school. It a shame that it had fallen into the disrepair you just showed. It was a very beautiful school.
Is this Greeneview North or Greeneview South ?
@@pamelacooley7667 south
@@alainenewman204 that's what I thought I went to both North and South
It saddens me to see the school left to decay. My old elementary school was torn down to make room for another one. My old school was a couple of stories high, and had wide wooden staircases. It was so cool, and held many great memories.
I just went through this a few weeks ago at night time with a group of friends with permission from owner. Love it. I would love to see this remodeled but they won’t they want to tear it down. Glad to view it in the daylight.
Where is it I kinda want to go
I grew up in that town and went to school there. I loved seeing this video. I watched it with my boyfriend and was telling him what every room was before you even had a chance to walk in. It's so sad to see how bad it's gotten and left to fall apart. That board with the names on it you seen in the bathrooms in the gym has my name on it!
Is this South ?
@@pamelacooley7667 yeah this is South
Super cool, this place is near my parents house. My brother in law actually went to school here, he's in his mid 30s to give you an idea when it was last used as a school.
At the 10:32 mark there used to be a glass display case hung on that wall where you see the 5 holes displaying a taxidermy bald eagle
I remember that eagle.
My dad went to school there. Cool to see the inside.
My 3 older brothers and myself started 1st grade here . My oldest bro born in 1936, next in 1938, next in 1941 and I was born in 1943. my children also started school here. We had the same 1st grade teacher Mrs Bonn Bock. Mrs Beard 2nd grade, MIss Vanniman 3rd, Mrs Arehart 4th, Mrs Haines 5th and Mr Ken Talbott 6th grade, all class
Rooms on first floor except Mr Talbott. Sharon Adams Karns
I went to this school, all the kids in that town plus a bunch from the town over went there. There were 2 elementary schools, this was called South. I could see I from my backyard, the church used it for about 2 or so Years. The only time someone would go to the school was right before and during the 1 to 2 weeks in the summer they used it. I just figured that because of how old the building is, when they left it until the next year there was too much to fix. It need regular upkeep that they weren't there for.
I like the colors of the walls. :)
That school's pretty much mint. They should sweep up a little bit and use it to host puppet shows.
The options are endless lol
I remember doing the physical fitness test in school back in the 1970's i always gave up at 40 situps a minute
I work for the school district that used to own this building and went to school there as a kid. I'm so glad to see it, but wish it was in better condition. It's actually not in the town you're referring to It's in a village next to it and it only has a population of 376
Beeaks my heart i went there along with siblings and other family members...
I've always found it a bit creepy, seeing beds in a school, even though it's no longer a school.
Especially considering most of the beds are twins and queens.
I went to the other elementary school North...you should explore that one as well
I attended the school from 1990 through 1996. Lots of memories there. So sad to see it in such disrepair and left trashed by former owners.
Did you happen to know a Mrs. Pauley? She was my grandmother who taught 1st grade.
@@jonboy_13mrs. Pauley was my first grade teacher!
There's an old school in Edenton, on 133 South (Google Maps lists it as Goshen). that looks like it's of a similar vintage, but it's even smaller than this. I have pictures of it from back in the '90s, but the building is still there. Somebody is using it as a warehouse of some kind.
I grew up in Clermont County, in a town that had about 1,000 residents when I lived there. My original elementary school (torn down over a decade ago and replaced) was built up over time. Original buildings were started in the late 1800s, it was expanded multiple times until the late '60s. Parts of the old building have those high windows they eventually dropped ceilings over(IIRC, they were twelvepanes), and the same rounded/molded window edges. The gym/auditorium looks a lot like the one in my elementary school, when I was a kid, except we didn't have bleachers - we sat directly on the formed concrete. The floor surface was some kind of glazed tile, and hurt like hell if you fell down on them. The town bomb shelter (complete with yellow and black nuclear sign) was behind the stage in our elementary auditorium.
For anybody's information who cares, the "vomit-sorb" smelled like Pepto Bismol. They used it when I was in elementary school in the '70s.
Sorry for the long comment, but this one hit some near-memories, since parts of my elementary school were from around the same time.
I attended that school!
14:21 Right after you say always get permission, we see the writing on the chalkboard saying STAY OUT.😂😂😂
Crazy to see this building look like this when 2004 was the last year it was a school still. Questionable to know what happened after that…
Jegs catalog on the floor at 27:18!!!
I went to school here. Would love to know who you were in contact with. I’ve tried several times over the years to go see it with no luck.
A lot of trucks used the back parking lot behind the school. A mile off I-71, tons of mattresses. Makes me think it was used for human trafficking.
As a former janitor, we called the vomitsorb "pixie dust".. it's nothing more than scented saw dust.
Such a simple product that I assume is absolutely necessary. I love that it’s called pixie dust.
15:49 I was there today.. that whole building is destroyed since you were there. (I had permission) where that attic access is the vents and Ceiling collapsed.. only in that room but I think someone pulled it all down somehow. In the video everything is organized but clearly people have been in recently and destroying everything.. place is destroyed compared to then
Spent 2 years of my life there. What they call Dorm room one, used to be a science room long before I got there. The shelves held old science equipment and a real human skull. I always remember looking at it and wondering, who it was. Where is it now?
Have u ever heard of Rouge's Hollow? Its mostly a site that has a "Haunted" History behind it. Located in Doylestown, Ohio. (A fairly small town)
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I would Love to have seen the Mansfield Reformatory.
Unfortunately, I heard that the roof was collapsing on it. :(
That’s sad about the reformatory, I wanted to check it out myself. I hope they can salvage it
The Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield is still open as a museum. There are pieces not open to the public, but a lot of it is from Spring to Autumn.
Hey man, is it expensive getting permits to film in these abandoned locations? I'm looking to shoot some scenes in a film in some of the ones I've seen on this channel.
The grounds are still taken care of.
I live about 5 minutes away from this school
Lol hey Dallas😭
Lol hey Dallas😭
You should have gone to the milk shed, look up Swallow Hill Jersey Dairy, just down the road. Best chocolate milk you will ever have.
@Jenni-gg9pj Small world! I always enjoy chatting when the owner catches me on my milk run. The kids love seeing the cows too. 🐄
That sun on the second floor looks like PAC-MAN.
Check out the old North Elementary same town
It’s gone
I went here ❤
I Go past here almost every day lol
My dad went here
I know exactly where this is i deer hunt just a couple miles from here
1 year younger than my house in dayton
I live near here. I’m the town over
Ah yes, good ol' Jimtown
Jamestown
He’s on meth. Don’t bother.
Bowersville,Ohio
Yo my name is on that 02 fitness board list still. A.J. Davey 🙋🏼♂️🫡
I went to 2nd grade there in 1977
The drop ceiling dropped. Ha
On my first day of school I think it was 3rd grade I was so nervous I puked in the floor in front of the office.
Wow church camp sucks but that camp would be the icing on church camp cake man it would be miserable stuck out in that farm field in that old school building
I went there from1957 to 1963.
This is my elementary school
People that put their numbers up probably looking for a good time. Lol lol
I get why everybody would want to protect the locations of these places. But, by not sharing locations we also can't do any sleuthing to get some more history of these places. 😕
If you do a little research it's pretty easy to find the location of these places.
I leave clues in every video lol. It’s kind of a fun mystery to try to solve when I watch other peoples videos.
@@OnceOccupied ...I'll just have to watch again for the clues!😉
@@nowadd0 Me too!
The name of the school is on the floor in the basement, when he talks about school levies. I went to this school from Kindergarten to 6th grade many years ago. I hate to see the condition it is in.
What town in South Ohio???
Where's the lunch room
What town, is that in Ohio? I hope nobody is smoking 🚬
You smell gas? Get out! Have t you ever heard of a gas leak causing a building to blow….tell the farmer.
NEVER GO TO OHIO.