Wednesday 10 October 2018

Lexington School


The long abandoned Lexington School still maintains a dominating presence on the North Dakota prairie landscape.

It's obviously not the charming little one-room school house that one generally associates with "pioneer" schools. Far from it! A second-generation school built to accommodate the burgeoning influx of children in the area.



It looks to be a similar design to Fir Mountain School (in southern  Saskatchewan) which opened in the late-1920's. I'd hazard a guess that Lexington School is even a little older than that.




A long time has passed since Lexington School has been graced with the presence of children.


These big old schools are pretty special. I love 'em!

- Michael Truman

3 comments:

  1. I would like to see this. Neat find.

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  2. Yeah, this is huge for a prairie school!

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    1. Many of these big second generation schools have fallen or are falling to rack and ruin. A few examples to the contrary are Alkabo School (of which I posted about here some six months ago or so) and Fox Valley School in Saskatchewan.

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