Abandoned - Ghosts of students past

PapiCulo Published 06/12/2013

Superimposed pictures of a derelict Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan... mixed with evocative images from the past. - Now demolished.

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The old Cass Tech building was plagued by fires after it closed in 2005 including one in 2007 that injured two firemen and two policemen
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The gym in the new wing is pictured - a building designed by Kahn Associates which was added in 1985 onto the west side of the original structure
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When the school moved into its new home, almost most everything was left behind,
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from desks to school supplies to televisions mounted on the walls. Someone stepping into the abandoned Cass Tech walks into a school frozen in time.
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A committee had been working to convert the 831,000-square-foot campus into a multi-use center with art galleries, studios, teaching spaces, retail, a performance space in the auditorium and residential lofts taking advantage of the pools and three gyms.
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But Detroit Public Schools had not adequately secured Cass Tech from vandals and scrappers. Nearly all of its windows have either been stolen or broken
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Stripped of its copper. A fire broke out in the buildings midsection on July 30, 2007, likely started by either vagrants or thieves trying to steal its metal fixings.
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On March 23, 2011, demolition crews started tearing down the 1980s addition along Grand River Avenue. The last of the building came down in early August 2011. When you destroy the lighthouse, ships sink. Sic transit gloria mundi. The Latin meaning: Thus passes the glory of the world.

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The old Cass Tech building was plagued by fires after it closed in 2005 including one in 2007 that injured two firemen and two policemen
3.
4.
The gym in the new wing is pictured - a building designed by Kahn Associates which was added in 1985 onto the west side of the original structure
5.
When the school moved into its new home, almost most everything was left behind,
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from desks to school supplies to televisions mounted on the walls. Someone stepping into the abandoned Cass Tech walks into a school frozen in time.
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A committee had been working to convert the 831,000-square-foot campus into a multi-use center with art galleries, studios, teaching spaces, retail, a performance space in the auditorium and residential lofts taking advantage of the pools and three gyms.
24.
But Detroit Public Schools had not adequately secured Cass Tech from vandals and scrappers. Nearly all of its windows have either been stolen or broken
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Stripped of its copper. A fire broke out in the buildings midsection on July 30, 2007, likely started by either vagrants or thieves trying to steal its metal fixings.
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On March 23, 2011, demolition crews started tearing down the 1980s addition along Grand River Avenue. The last of the building came down in early August 2011. When you destroy the lighthouse, ships sink. Sic transit gloria mundi. The Latin meaning: Thus passes the glory of the world.