Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Sleighton Farm School Follow Up

I am making this as a follow up about my last post about Sleighton. If you read this you gotta read the first one too. This ha some updated information and some of it is important. I'm debating on whether I should edit the other one but right now I'm not.

The only two things that changed from the last post to now is the fire of the Martha P. Falcolner School House, which I will discuss, and I also don't recommend you just wander around Sleighton like I said in the last post. The idea was that if people who have the intention to explore rather than vandalize or steal copper, it would keep the copper strippers and Vandals away. The State Police now patrol there and have been doing a good job, catching a few copper strippers. If they catch you wandering around you may get in trouble, so although it's definetely a great place to check out, enter at your own risk.

Martha P. Falcolner School House Fire

This was one of my favorite buildings, being one of the stand out ones. When I first walked in here it must have been right after copper strippers broke in, the interior was in decent shape and the door I came in from was ripped right out of the wall. It was cool because it was like I walked right into 2002. All the lights still worked, desk were still lined up, student work was hanging on the walls. Not to mention also this had beautiful wood work inside. In fact, the woodwork was spectacular. Two weeks after my first visit not surprisingly the building was heavily vandalized. A few weeks after that the building burned down from an electrical fire. The fire company said lightning but it was definitely electrical. You got a steeple 100 yards to the left and a water tower 100 yards to the right, and it hits this building? Not to mention the power room in the basement made all kinds of weird noises and people left lights on that weren't used in ten year (I made sure they were all off after each time I left).

                                          Everything to the left is gone and that tree was cut down
                                           The library survived but doesn't look like this anymore
                                            This part of the building still exist
                                               This is all gone now, sadly
                                              This doesn't exist anymore either


Fortunately the church is still around and in better shape than the rest of the building, this is a truly spectacular building as well. Every piece of copper in the church was stolen, who ever did that better hope they don't go to hell. It's my dream to open this up and make it a public church.
                                            Exterior of church. Still looks the same today
                                         Side view, beside boarded windows and some plants not much changed
                                 Interior, a little messier now but still the same and in decent shape
This a picture I took. This is in the front of the church and the only light on in the whole building was above Jesus.

                  Let's not forget the John Sargent Building, not much change about that besides landscaping, and this building is nice inside with huge hallways.
Main street, the trees are much larger but still here. On this property there are many huge full grown trees which look really nice. There is a huge sycamore that I really liked.
The sunken gardens. Almost non existent today but was a true beauty back in the day.



 So far things still aren't looking too good. The school is still in restorable condition in my opinion and right now there are no development plans I know of which is good. The school is still owned by Elwyn Inc. and Sleighton Inc. and is for sale for $14 million. This is my dream property so I would buy it if I had that money. I got permission to share the photos on here. I want to thank Chuck who I have a link to more pictures on my other blog post, and Sleighton Farm Views, a facebook page which I have a link to on my other blog post as well. There is so much more to this school than what I have posted so you have to check out these other photos. Feel free to comment here, it's open to everybody.

Check out my newest post on the development plan:  http://unknowhistoricsites.blogspot.com/2013/05/beginning-of-end-for-sleighton-5413.html