We bought a 1914 grade school and are turning it into our family home

The school when we closed on it in August 2021

Image from the listing

As we've been waiting for construction to get done, we started making schoolhouse swag. T shirts, hats... tiny sweat suits for our 2 year old son.

Floor joists that had to be replaced.

Plan for the front based off what we found in the local museum to keep it as historically accurate as possible.

Back plan (we're adding a garage, not historically accurate but we need a garage)

Power washing the walls in the basement. They were covered in crazy stuff.

Winter 2022 photo- we removed front steps (that were not original at all) to do foundation work.

Adding in some sliding glass doors off of what will be our bedroom.

More floor joist repairs.

Kitchen is getting framed!

Kid rooms getting framed.

We invented a little track club, this outfit makes our son look like one of the little boys in the Royal Tenenbaums.

Image of hallway when we bought the school. Carpet, extra little doors added, we have since removed these and are working on saving as much of the floors as possible.

New windows going in this week!! Most expensive thing I've ever bought.

Aerial view from when we bought the property, there was 3 feet of water on the roof and some crazy broken ceiling joists. We've since added a new roof.

Inside after we took out all of the garbage, October 2021.

October 2021.

Broken joist that was just hovering over previous owners dining room table.

We had to remove part of the roof to repair the joists. Was very scary to see rain on the inside for a while.