Alabama Schools

Stanley

The Old School Men’s Meeting at the Stanley Community Center, recently spotlighted for its collaboration with the County Commission, aims to address the pressing need for male leadership in families and communities.

Straw Men

Nestled in the heart of Alabama, the school we discovered stands as a poignant relic of times gone by, its silence echoing with the ghosts of laughter and learning that once filled its halls.

College Campus

This college campus has been totally abandoned. I had been here once before & only the gym had an opened door. The rest of the buildings were still locked up & prisitne. A few years later we come back to check it out & this is what we found.

F.D. McArthur

F. D. McArthur School (originally 17th Avenue School, also F. D. McArthur Elementary School) was a former Birmingham city school located on the northwest corner of 17th Avenue North and 25th Street in Druid Hills, near Carraway Hospital. It was constructed in 1910 and later named for attorney and Birmingham Board of Education president F. D. McArthur. The school's colors were green and white, and its mascot was the Hornets. An 8-room addition to the school, designed by Warren, Knight & Davis, was completed in 1941 in replacement of the classrooms lost when Barker Elementary School was destroyed by fire. The school was closed in May 1997. A 2003 agreement to sell the property to a church fell through. On June 13, 2004 the Birmingham City Council agreed to buy the McArthur School, Baker Elementary School and Fairview Elementary Schools from the school system for a total of $654,000. The purpose of the transaction was to bank land for future residential use. In 2008 Mayor Larry Langford announced that Shinsegae USA, Inc., a South Korean-owned firm which was interested in the adjacent medical center, would also purchase the school building and invest $2.5-3 million to renovate it as a nursing school for Korean students who wanted to work in the United States. That project was never realized. ~ BHAM WIKI

Alabama School

This was my second visit to this school. On the first visit, it was in much better condition. The vintage water fountains were in pristine condition. Some of the rooms were loaded down with used merchandise, clothes & weight equipment.