I’ve been to about two hundred and fifty old schoolhouses around East Central Indiana. My trips have taught me that most of them have been repurposed into homes, churches, corn cribs, and sheds! I’m glad so many have been saved, but the abandoned schoolhouses are the ones that truly speak to me. I hesitate to call them my favorites, but here are ten of the most compelling schoolhouse ruins I’ve found thus far.
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Ball Brothers’ Colossal Batch Tower
Much of Muncie’s history is tied to the Ball Brothers, five New York industrialists who moved their fledgling glass business here in the 1880s. Although the company’s Muncie glassworks closed in 1962, a colossal physical reminder of Ball’s industrial omnipotence here is a mysterious tower left behind on East Memorial Drive.
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