Now Detroit and its citizens are boldly setting the standard for reinvention, showing how a city can be changed not just for the better but for the different, considering the previous ideal didnt pan out so well. Due to budget cuts, student population shifts, and building deterioration, around 200 public schools have closed in Detroit since 2000. I had an opportunity to see the new building in 2015. Media outlets have labeled the once thriving Motor City "a ghost town. Caria leaned on organizations such as . The new building, designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn, began construction in 1916 but, due to wartime shortages, was not completed until 1922 at a final cost of $3.93 million (approximately $50 million today). The Detroit Boat Club, located on Belle Isle, was the first poured concrete building ever erected. [32], As of 2022[update], approximately 2,400 students attended Cass Technical High School: 583 students in the ninth grade, 637 students in the tenth grade, 606 in the eleventh grade, and 575 in the twelfth grade. [25], A new campus opened in May 2005 in an adjacent lot on Grand River Avenue to the north of the original building. An Abandoned Detroit School, Now And Then. Everythingsonsaletoday As a building on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, the original structure was left in place, however a large fire gutted it in 2007. The school also had an indoor pool and facilities for fencing, table tennis, indoor track and field, and ice skating and hockey. Named in honor of Lewis Cass, the school was located on the top floor of the old Cass Union School, a three-story brick building built in 1861 on a farm donated by Lewis Cass. Us going down to the basement and security come after us. Romania: Castles, Ruins, and Medieval Villages, Iceland in Summer: Journey Through a Fabled Land, Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: Mokele-Mbembe, Accidental Discoveries: A Celebration of Historical Mistakes, Antiques and Their Afterlives: Stories from the Collection of Ryan and Regina Cohn, Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: Satanists, Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tale Writing With Anca Szilgyi, Gourds Gone Wild: Growing and Crafting Gourds With Gourdlandia, Playing Ancient Games: History & Mythology With John Bucher, Secrets of Tarot Reading: History & Practice With T. Susan Chang, Why 18th-Century Scots Performed Mock Human Sacrifices Over Cake. I remember us hanging out at the police station across the street from school. These images were then combined with more recent snapshots of the school's ruinous last years, revealing the empty halls and untouched equipment that were left to decay. casstechnicalhighschool photos on Flickr | Flickr Detroiturbex.com - Lewis Cass Technical High School ALUMNI Registration Cass Tech, on the left, was connected via a bridge to the High School of Commerce, right, which had served as the previous home of Cass Tech. (source). At that time, we were the only school with a gymnastics program so I got very involved with that.
