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Spring 2021

Abandoned Educational, Other in Niagara Falls, Ontario

Nov 13 2021

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This image is a historic photo from city archives of Lyons Creek Elementary School in operation. Opened in 1955, it was originally a two-room school complete with a principal and secretary. An additional two rooms were added prior to 1959, and then two more at an unknown later date.
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Declining enrolment in the 1960s caused the Niagara District School Board to amalgamate the student body with FJ Rutland school in Chippawa. They continued to use Lyons Creek as a community centre until a bathroom fire damaged the interior badly enough to deem it not worth repairing. It closed in 1971 and the building and land were bought by a farmer who surrounded it with livestock pens and used the interior as a storage barn. This photo shows how it looked in the mid-70s. By time I started driving by it, the building was even surrounded by a vehicle junkyard and plenty of farm machinery.
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A local gave me some history on this room after I posted this photo to another website: "In 1970 the washrooms were set on fire. At the time I worked for the Niagara South Board of Education as a painter. They sent 2 of us to clean it up. The damage was extensive and was way too much for 2 of us to fix. After a week there they came and pulled us off the job and the school never open again. That fire happened when the building was being used as a community centre. The cost of the repairs probably was more than likely the straw that broke the camel's back: the board decided to sell the property after that. That's all i remember."
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