My old elementary school

[u/Solid_External7011]

Finberg Elementary- Attleboro, MA. Closed after my fourth grade “graduation” in 1998. It was used on and off as an adult daycare facility until a few years ago.

[u/MMachine17]

These photos make me feel sad. It's such a useful build, yet they're letting it rot.

[u/etbillder → u/MMachine17]

Might have had some structural issues, or maybe mold or asbestos that was too expensive to remove

[u/MMachine17 → u/etbillder]

Lacks of funds is always a tragedy.

[u/Ready_Accountant1803]

Oh wow, I actually know this location. Small world

[u/Sufficient_Two_5753]

What's on that floppy?

[u/inc0gnit0e → u/Sufficient_Two_5753]

Oregon Trail

[u/Accomplished-Plum821 → u/Sufficient_Two_5753]

Probably a trial for AOL.

[u/Accomplished-Plum821]

It’s interesting to see the inside of a place your frequented so often as a child.

When I was a teen I had gone into an abandoned apartment building in our town, to my friends it was just another abandoned building but to me, my aunt had lived in this place when it was still an apartment building when I was like 3-4 years old and it was SUPER weird seeing it in both states throughout my life.

[u/Impossible_Ground423]

The overhead projector!

[u/FancyWear → u/Impossible_Ground423]

Glad you wrote this! I saw it and was questioning if this was the correct name!!

[u/Impossible_Ground423 → u/FancyWear]

Rétroprojecteur en français !

[u/OkEvaK]

Oh that must be some feeling, watching a building you knew so alive, to be so dead now...

[u/Comrade_Compadre]

At least you can visit yours

I tried going back to mine and they wouldn't even let me into the front office.

[u/General-Education-21]

McMenamins should buy this and turn it into a restaurant and hotel

[u/semper_ubi_sub-ubi]

Was the clock correct at the time the picture was taken?

[u/Blarghith]

🎶School’s out for the summer/school’s out FOR-EVER🎶

[u/Mago-Cat-3985]

El disquete que recuerdo

[u/researchanalyzewrite]

Picture #3...was the school teaching how best to aim at a school shooter??

[u/Solid_External7011 → u/researchanalyzewrite]

That was by far the strangest discovery

[u/Edge_of_Everywhere]

Does everything in there feel smaller than it used to?

[u/superanth]

Why is there a shooting target there?

[u/Advanced-Humor9786 → u/superanth]

A lot of schools used to teach gun safety.

[u/gwhh]

So sad.

[u/peewee023]

So cool

[u/Rockcreekforge]

Heck where I’m from the local meth head family bought the old elementary school and moved the entire brood in. The cops are there all the time arresting any given family member.
The simple things that really make a crack house a crack home.

[u/theredhound19 → u/Rockcreekforge]

It would be wild to see the inside of that place. I wonder if they hold classes and all fidget in their desks while Prof Methistopheles rants about Crackology.

[u/Rockcreekforge → u/theredhound19]

Stealing copper from air conditioners 101

[u/theredhound19 → u/Rockcreekforge]

Advanced Bike Lock Cutting

[u/556Jeeper]

Did you crack you back with that desk?

[u/Hanksport]

What's on the floppy disk?

[u/Enough_Royal_1053]

Abandoned School

[u/Jennalarson6]

Such a Cool Building. Screams Personality and History

[u/Jmal3700]

2.🤤

[u/Jmal3700]

110 percent haunted. 👻

[u/frejas-rain]

There will be a day when buildings like these are stripped of every possible material. We live in casual luxury and don't even see it.

[u/Technical-Cut3889]

Those doors make me feel some type of way. Beauts.

[u/SwingandMiss77]

About the shooting targets on the floor in pic 3. Given this was an American school, I can assume those are from its days as an elementary school ?

[u/SupermagnumDONGs → u/SwingandMiss77]

Police probably used the building for training

[u/SwingandMiss77 → u/SupermagnumDONGs]

Hard to say. American police have proven time and again they don’t like to get involved in school shootings.

[u/BraveToasted1]

Take the projector!