1915 Abandoned School in Ohio with Pool Serpent | Renaissance Revival Architecture

The pool serpent at this abandoned school in Ohio is one of the most unique features we have ever found in an abandoned place.
This huge abandoned school in Ohio opened in 1915. 1200 students once filled its halls and classrooms. It has been closed since 2006 and awaiting redevelopment. The school has many beautiful features that showcase its beautiful Renaissance Revival Architecture. Features including hardwood trim and cabinets, 2 gymnasiums including one with a rope course, 2 elevated courtyards, a huge auditorium, and a truly one-of-a-kind pool you won't want to miss.
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[@OnceOccupied]

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[@connorwareing8116]

I’ve been here about 4-5 times now, one of my fav local places to explore

[@jdexploresfan3628]

Loved the auditorium and the ornate water fountain. Thanks so much for the epic explore 👍😃

[@OnceOccupied]

I know I wish it wasn’t covered where I could’ve got a better look at it. Appreciate the love man 💪🏻

[@debraellison6255]

The units on the wall look like blow dryers. Loved the blue door. Would make a nice still photo along with the water fountain and fish. Maybe they should have kept the school opened! Someone wrote peak a boo instead of peek a boo. Thanks for sharing.

[@BilisNegra]

1:23: "No power"... liked the comic understatement there. Looks like copper scrappers have done a pretty thorough job there... no wiring.

[@OnceOccupied]

They stripped it all!

[@deborahjamison6212]

I wish I guys would explore more houses in Dayton View ,there are plenty of them empty and abandoned over their I know some if not all were beautiful at one time .It used to be a rich part of town

[@OnceOccupied]

Don’t worry there’s lots more coming!

[@LDDavis911]

Incredible details! The water intrusion is concerning. Especially since the power is disconnected. Brutal Ohio winters and blistering hot summers will accelerate the destruction exponentially. This structure deserves to be saved.

[@staceyhay1355]

Epic explore! This is a diamond in the rough! Hope it can be saved!!

[@OnceOccupied]

I hope so too. I would love to live in a condo there and swim in that pool!

[@bubblesangel555]

I love how you take the time to look at 'stuff' I can't get out anymore, and I know others appreciate it too!

[@barbfrank917]

Very Very interesting, you have matured in how you present your subjects and thank you for not swearing. I was waiting for you to open a locker.

[@sassysue6472]

WOW! Absolutely stunning! What a find😍

[@Murfs_Niche]

Wow, what a fantastic building with extraordinary features & deluxe details. Seems weird ir's not still in use & maintained to preserve all that. Leaving behind the sewing machine is wasteful I'm sure the public would gladly have purchased if they sold foe a discounted price. Thx for a great explore! 🙋‍♀️💜✌

[@OnceOccupied]

Thanks for the love Marlene! There’s been talk for years of turning it in the condos but it’s not in the greatest neighborhood so hopefully somebody with a big checkbook makes it happen.

[@cecoya]

I really liked the auditorium with all the arches and columns. Reminds of some of the mansions in the UK the grand ball rooms where they would waltz. Great explore. Have a great day

[@KapricornKary]

Right around 1:28, a few seconds after you said 'no power', I swear I heard someone whisper 'what'. Loved this video. A building like this should be turned into apartments/condos. I lived in one years ago in Norfolk VA that was a turn of the 20th century school. The wooden staircase was gorgeous and every apartment had those super high windows, columns, original woodwork.

[@OnceOccupied]

I would definitely love to live here after it’s turned into apartments or condos

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

In my town Centurial high became apts the pool is apt 👍🏼 basketball floor is left it’s in several spots and hall John wooden coached there

[@gaylewilliamson9183]

I hope they will do something with this school it's in good condition the concrete and medal just needs old paint taken off maybe sand blasted The lockers shelving ,cafeteria .surely they will save it.the water fountains wow.the pool gorgeous the stage.movie room wonderful.that school is worth saving.❤❤❤🖒

[@HappyMuffin]

Ever heard of lead and asbestos abatement? I guess not.

[@roseandulics2338]

Beautiful Auditorium

[@OnceOccupied]

It was so detailed and huge!

[@andrianaolivencia2522]

i explored this place last month!!!

[@moistpickl3s]

do you mind giving a hint to location?

[@tonyahaley6900]

That was a fantastic reflection shot.

[@shane5241]

There was a pool I went to when I was a kid that had a gutter. Maybe old river or Kettering?

[@zackakayungcity]

Lafayette bloom , one of a kind

[@pixilixy]

Love it! Found you via Devins films

[@OnceOccupied]

Awesome! Welcome 🙏🏻

[@estherl2407]

Very decorated for a school, awesome explore

[@trishalane83]

New sub here! This building is AMAZING!!! If only we cared this much about education nowadays😕. Thank you for sharing this with us!!

[@lpalacios1]

I’ve been all over the country working in failing schools to help teachers improve. The most gorgeous schools are in big cities and are old. They cared about the details then. NYC has amazing built in shelving, floor to ceiling windows and incredible doorknobs and strike plates. Many have the school name, which was mostly PS and a number.

[@carolmay5168]

Loved this video!

[@bluemoon3699]

That is a very beautiful school. Must be a rich school. None of the schools I went to were like that. None of my schools had a pool. Looked like a fun place !!!

[@suerabe5708]

My parents went to Roosevelt High School in Dayton and I believe they had at least one pool, maybe two. Definitely not a school for the rich. I wish I had the chance to see I in its heyday.

[@Mizz.Person]

So glad the library is empty!! Hopefully the books are still somewhere, being read! :)

[@redhead4life12345]

What a great find!

[@ronframe387]

HBC :: awesome still photo! Glad they didn't graffiti the fish. Never seen a staircase like that. Were the stair treads concrete? Steel would get too smooth. Thanks for another great exploration!

[@OnceOccupied]

I think they were concrete but I’d have to go back and try to check I don’t think I took pictures of any stairs close up. HBC can take some amazing photos. Especially those light painting ones😜

[@richardvg7670]

That is a totally awesome Explorer guys and there is no way not even any comparison on how they build schools today like that with all that detail no wonder that's cool with still around all that time I'll guarantee you these new schools won't have even as close a Time lasting as these old ones do That Auditorium kind of reminds me of the school in the Back to the Future movie where Marty's walking down the hallways with Doc Brown it would have been great to have been a student here

[@mikeguy]

wonder why they dont try to keep up these old schools We have a high school in my hometown that was built in 1901 and it is still going. Nice marble floors, walls, iron railings on stairs...it is even on the historic register. Up keep is all that is needed. They don't build schools like that anymore

[@lesliepowell6471]

This took me back!!!!

[@katewill7113]

I’ve watched a few of your videos now and it doesn’t appear you look at the items you see/find in these abandoned places. In this video I saw a few things in the wood shop cabinets, what was it? Those books in the hall, how old are they? These are things that pique my interest. Still like watching your videos though.

[@OnceOccupied]

I actually do look at all that stuff and usually we explore for several hours but the problem is the average watch time of a video on KZbin is like six minutes. So sadly if I edit it down to two hours no one would watch it. Everyone says they will watch the whole thing if it’s an hour and a half long but realistically that is just not the case. I thought about creating a second channel where we show the whole video. It’s a balance. Give people the detail they want but don’t make it too long. I’ve been trying to pack more detail in the same amount of time. I really appreciate the feedback!!!

[@toocutepuppies6535]

1915 was when all the high school students looked like they were 45!

[@Al3xVanc3]

Another banger episode

[@OnceOccupied]

Thanks 🙏🏻 man!

[@rachelandersen3762]

Omg when you said pool or something like that I thought they had swimming lessons

[@deborahjamison6212]

Beautiful wish they would've saved some of the old schools in Dayton

[@zudemaster]

What a amazing building. It would be such a shame if it were to be torn down like so many other schools in Ohio have been over the past decade.

[@angiewanders7272]

Loved the auditorium and the design in it. The chandlers were so cool. The water fountain was beautiful. It's such a big school. Wow that pool is so cool.

[@OnceOccupied]

Every aspect of it was over the top especially that auditorium and pool. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@waynepytlik9166]

This is a captivating video. Just a recommendation, with gems like this school, I wish you spent a little more time viewing the ornate styling. Maybe break this up into 2 15 minute videos. Not criticism just a suggestion. Keep up the good videos.

[@bassminusb]

Awesome video! Those contraptions on the wall at 16:16 look like hair dryers. Gotta dry your hair after gym class shower.

[@aleiaarrington3897]

Bloom was in cincinnati

[@daviddaughenbaugh1080]

Cool

[@gaylewilliamson9183]

If the want to be artist with their childish graffiti would leave things alone. I wonder if they feel grown up after writing stupid words,Sick.love your video.🖒🖒

[@OnceOccupied]

I know I really wish they wouldn’t of graffitied up the place especially the serpent 😤

[@bluemoon3699]

@@OnceOccupied The pool serpent is called a dolphin. It is Dogon the water gods/water spirits. (mermaids & merfolk) There are dolphin candlesticks and antique items. Many of them look like monsters fish.

[@curtislowe4577]

Did that enclosed space you referred to as a patio have a door or just windows? You didn't pan up. Did it have skylights in the ceiling?

[@robg8784]

bro,you must run into people in these buildings from time to time....that scare the piss outta you

[@OnceOccupied]

Occasionally we do run And people mostly homeless and to be honest they want nothing to do with us. Scrappers can be scary but in general they’re not supposed to be there anyway but we definitely try to avoid

[@jeffbrooks5580]

Lol I worked for cabinet company made custom cabinet for a Catholic high school in Dayton near downtown they had special metal between the wood n the laminated outside needed certain type of metal that wouldent rust

[@jeansiegel4128]

I had to take sewing in JHS but I went to Music& Art high school as an art major. Did you ever find the office in the school?

[@OnceOccupied]

We did but sadly they were all empty. Some friends visited the school a year or so ago and it still had all the books and many of the desks. Sadly I was a little late getting to this one.

[@jasonzwo]

What is the name of the school? And where in Ohio is it?

[@angelicaurzua426]

He sounds like rhett from good mythical morning haha

[@drv6531]

5:52 - Peak uhh boo!

[@richardvg7670]

That was a wonderful old trophy case to very nostalgic it's a shame that kids had to go and put graffiti all over it this building looks like it has so much history behind it it should be preserved

[@lisadouglas8828]

Foot Lights

[@laurabrooks7655]

The space under the stage is probably an orchestra pit.

[@stephenreid7043]

For the Seven Dwarves Orchestra

[@frankcoffey]

Most of those spaces were for storage, chairs, props, etc.

[@aleiaarrington3897]

So many bad things happened there.

[@Brian-xi8ug]

I want to see the old air conditioner systems. And asbestos.

[@stephenreid7043]

The old blue asbestos used to be really beautiful

[@CWRU]

First, thank you, your work here, while sad, is very enlightening and important. The videos themselves are fascinating, but also a prime exposition of the degradation of our great cities. I note the classic architecture, maybe neogothic, but the last signs left read, "stop the violence." This is clearly yet another great urban artifice, left to rot and eventually destroyed after the Whites who built and used it left. Fucking disgusting. A fitting analogy to the destruction of our civilization.

[@NurseNettie]

How much would you ask to go back and get me some of those history books?? I live in Ohio.

[@OnceOccupied]

Sorry we don’t ever take anything. Sadly we often find amazing item but just take pictures.

[@amberdawn2601]

@@OnceOccupied Good for you! It takes a lot of willpower to leave something incredible behind to rot, but if it doesn't belong to you, it's wrong to take it even if you're "rescuing" it. I totally see the logic behind rescuing something, but you never know if it's truly abandoned without asking an owner. I've only ever taken something from an abandoned place one time, and it was because it was about to be burned down and I intended on finding the family. They'd obviously left in a hurry, and everything just stayed there for 20 years.

[@duanewhite3184]

The things you don't know what they are hanging on the wall are dryers drying your hands or hair whatever you wanted to dry

[@MsPepsi819]

Too bad you didn't do Patterson before it was torn down

[@loosetwistyog4514]

You deserve more subscribers... try using Clickbait in your next video make it something EPIC.. or dont... who cares. Your content is great small or big nonetheless.

[@reichmuth100]

This is back when men and women built America, Everything was done here and made here. Not anymore that's why our country is in the state it's in. We need to go back in time and start making everything here again. This school is beautiful.

[@berlieannapalmer1187]

Hair dryrs grils locker room

[@vernonsanders371]

An of course idiots spray painting on its walls