A friend emailed me an interesting web page concerning repurposed schools in Duluth. The Zenith City crew put this up a couple years ago. It shows most if not all old ISD 709 schools some Catholic Schools and some old Duluth Normal School buildings and explains how they are used today.
At the end it does make one mistake writing that:
“At this writing, Nettleton Elementary School, Chester Park Elementary School, Morgan Park High School, and the 1971 Duluth Central High School sit unused. Lakeview Christian Academy, which is currently housed in the former Lowell Elementary School, has offered to purchase the 1971 high school, but so far Duluth’s school board has said no, in part because it says it does not want to sell to a “competing” school. The adapted reuse of Cobb, Lakeside, Lowell, and Washburn Elementary Schools indicates that “competing school” policy applies only to the Central High facility,which sit on a very valuable piece of real estate looking out over Lake Superior and the St. Louis Bay.”
In fact the schools mentioned above were sold before a clause was added to ISD 709 school board policy forbidding sales of schools to “competitors.”
ALSO ANOTHER FRIEND NOTED THAT AT THIS WEBSITE’S POSTING CHESTER PARK WAS OWNED BY UMD.
Its worth noting that the buyers of these schools represented lots of taxpayers who helped support the Duluth Public Schools even though they sent their children to Parochial or other schools.
