Schools
DeSisto School
The DeSisto School was an experiment in alternative education methods for gifted but troubled children. There are many accounts of former residents of the boarding school on the internet, very few of them positive. Reports of abuse and mistreatment culminate in a story of the faculty allegedly delaying treatment for a girl who swallowed a…
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Willard Elementary School
My friend and I took a bit of a side-trip without the locals to check out Willard Elementary School a.k.a. Highland Park Bright Center for Adult Education. Detailed history is available at Nailhed’s site so I won’t try to recreate it here. You never know what you will get with abandoned buildings. I wasn’t expecting…
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Cass Technical High School
Cass Tech was a special explore. Obviously lots of Detroiters got in but when we went it was boarded up very tight and we just happened to be there when the door was wide open. The amount of (perfectly usable, wasted) stuff left behind was amazing. We heard someone inside with us and it turned…
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