The previous Sense of Place entry covered the walk from my house to where the Center School I attended used to be. The elementary school was moved to a former seminary, now called Botelle, while Center School was torn down and a senior housing complex know as Meadowbrook took its place. These pictures provide a closer view of where Center School used to be.
View of the former Center School lot. Plenty of pavement both then and now.
The new emergency response building under construction
The prominent feature of the playground for Center School was pavement. I know this well as a fall on the playground once broke my collar bone. The right part of the Meadowbrook building was the part of the pavement that had swings, see-saws and jungle gyms. The left part was where the former red brick school used to be. There used to be two basketball poles near where the parking garage now exists.
An emergency response building is going up on the once empty lot next to Meadowbrook. In recent times we held our Farmer’s Market on this lot. In more distant times, when I was very young, I faintly remember an abandoned hotel, white with plenty of windows and a wrap-around porch.
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