Red Corner School
Madison County, Indiana
| Dates: | c.1905 |
| Location: | SR 28 east of Elwood, Madison County, Indiana |
This beautiful county school building was located on the south side of SR 28, just west of SR 37 and the city of Elwood. It appeared to have been built around 1900-1910 and was largely intact on its exterior. The interior appeared to have been vandalized (looking in the front door) but the front steps and railings were intact. The building had an interesting composition of a front entrance canopy below paired windows centered beneath a dormer that had a ventilator rising out of its roof. The building was certainly architect designed, but I do not know who the architect was.
Sadly, this building was demolished in late October or early November, 2004. These photographs were taken in January, 2003. The last time I drove past the building in October I almost stopped to take some more pictures. Next time I drove past it was a gravel lot. This is definitely a great loss for the Elwood area, where the most prominent public building, J. F. Alexander & Son's City Building of 1899, is currently vacant and endangered.
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| January, 2003, view from the northeast | Detail of dormer and ventilator cupola |
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| View through the front doors, note railing |