St Michael's School, Buckman

Just heard from Anon letting us know that the parish in Buckman intends to tear down the old school building  this week.  It was built in 1910 and pretty much abandoned in 1992, according to Anon (I would have guessed much earlier).  The building was boarded up, but vandals and time have made it a liability, I suppose.

 Even if school wasn't a favorite part of a lot of childhoods, the place would echo with a few thousand German kids voices and a few long-suffering Benedictines, not to mention the proud community who managed to build the place.  In a German community, the buildings were an indication of what was important to the settlers:  the church was done in 1903, and the school came next.

It reminds me of a building in Waite Park that was recently torn down--an ugly old quonset on the corner where I turned to go to a clients house.  I hadn't "seen" it in years, and the only problem now is retraining my memory for that turn.  It'll probably become parking, just like the old school space in Buckman.
If anyone has old photos of it, send them along, ok?  We can build ourselves a memorial / shrine to it here on Hesch History.

Thanks, Anon!