Wabash, IN Junior High School (demolished)

            This beautiful Romanesque Revival school in Wabash, Indiana was already deteriorating when I took this picture.  The city had ordered the owner to either demolish the building or repair it.  He fought the order in court and lost.  When the deadline for demolition approached, the owner wrapped chains around the pillars in the arched facade, hitched them to his truck and pulled the entryway down.  This spiteful action doomed the building as they were the most distinctive feature.   (see next picture for detail)  I returned later and took more pictures of the crumbling building, but it is now gone, a failure of government and the private sector as well.
   

Taken on: March 1, 1992

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