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Do you know what [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=30.412632,-87.228591&spn=0.012861,0.019312&z=16&g=113+%22C+Street%22+pensacola&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=30.412629,-87.228694&panoid=2-uiYTzW_YzaCpiX66cGIw&cbp=12,346.880054150443,,0,-3.5652180778125393 this large abandoned building] is at 113 North C Street? My guess is a school but I don't know. <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 16:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
:Yeah, it's the old [[Blount Junior High School]] built in [[1937]] (expanded from the earlier [[Lockley Elementary School]] built in [[1915]]). Closed around '82, it was purchased from the school district by [[Frank McGinley]] for about $5000 "as-is." McGinley was going to turn it into retirement apartments and spent about $250k removing asbestos and fixing it up, and even lived in it for a while, but ran out of money. After [[Hurricane Ivan]] some investors bought the property for $400k. Source: "'Dinosaur' of an old school becomes home to ex-student." ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 10, 2006. <span style="font-family:Georgia, serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''''[[User:Admin|admin]]''''' • '''''[[User_talk:Admin|talk]]''''' </span> 17:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
::It's really beautiful. I discovered it haphazardly while canvassing during the election but didn't have time to linger. I went back by yesterday. I really, really hope someone manages to salvage it, but it looks like it's in pretty bad shape. I'm going to work up an article, do you have a way to forward me that PNJ article? Also, it's named after A.C., not W.A. Blount, right? <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 17:43, 11 January 2009 (UTC)