From abandoned school to community hub: a closer look at the process underway to transform a long-empty building
By Tim Rowland
The architecture is identifiable from literally a mile away. An emphatic two-story rectangular broadside of concrete and brick with soaring windows and outsized entryways. Those entrances were capable of swallowing hundreds of students, who in the first half of the 20th century were newly required by law to attend school.
At the end of the 19th century, only 5.6% of America’s 14- to 17-year-olds were enrolled in high schools; 50 years later, according to McGill University, compulsory education laws had sent three in four of these teens to class.
This massive increase in students required a building program to accommodate them, and Keeseville High School was a result of that construction.
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