Abandoned School

7 photos · 2015–2026

7 photographs tagged Abandoned School, 2015–2026.

Mesabi Academy in Buhl, Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Mesabi Academy, Former Juvenile Detention Center in Buhl, Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Abandoned Mesabi Academy Juvenile Detention Center, Buhl Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Stands at Mesabi Academy in Buhl Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Abandoned Mesabi Academy Juvenile Corrections in Buhl Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Abandoned Martin Hughes / Mesabi Academy in Buhl, Minnesota — The former Martin Hughes School in Buhl, Minnesota, later home to Mesabi Academy, a residential treatment and juvenile corrections facility that operated in the building until 2016. The facility closed after allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

Abandoned brick schoolhouse with red shutters stands isolated in grassland near Crystal Springs, North Dakota. — The old Crystal Springs School sits on a rise of grassland in Kidder County, North Dakota, its brick facade and parapet detailing typical of early 1900s rural school construction on the Great Plains. Schools like this one served small farming communities before state-driven consolidation efforts, which accelerated after the 1947 passage of North Dakota's school reorganization laws, closed hundreds of one- and two-room schoolhouses across the state. Crystal Springs itself was platted along the Northern Pacific Railway line and never grew beyond a small unincorporated community, leaving buildings like this school without a local population to sustain them once district boundaries were redrawn.

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