This is actually a big building. Rather than showing you ten or so shots you’d have to piece together to imagine, I’ve borrowed Historic Indianapolis’s picture, below:
And back to my iPhone…
More from Historic Indianapolis:
“In 1953, after undergoing a $160,000 renovation, the school opened as Harry E. Wood Vocational School, honoring one of the nation’s leaders in the progress of manual training education, drawing students from nine neighborhood elementary school. On March 20, 1954, after receiving accreditation, the school became the eighth Indianapolis high school and was renamed Harry E. Wood High School, a six-year high school serving grades seven through twelve. Along with a full academic curriculum, Wood High School offered courses in auto body repair, barbering, beauty culture, cleaning and pressing, dental assistance (the only school in America to do so) practical nursing, shoe repair, commercial food preparation, printing, mechanical drawing/drafting, metal work along with transportation and power. To its credit, during its first three years of existence, Harry E. Wood High School lowered the Indianapolis drop-out rate by more than 15%. With the construction of I-70, which brought the destruction of hundreds of home through the center of Wood High School’s student population, citing declining enrollment, the school was the first ever high school closed in Indianapolis. Since the school’s closure, the building has been converted into high end office space and has been owned by The Indianapolis, Christian Schools, Brougher Insurance and Eli Lilly. It’s now owned by American Realty Capital Trust and is being used as hi-scale office space.”
And back to my iPhone…
The doors must surely be the soul of this building.
#ThursdayDoors is part of an inspired post series run by Norm Frampton. To view other interesting doors, click the link and see what others are posting today.
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My first thoughts were that these door were to a school. I enjoyed the historical information behind the building. I’m glad that it is still standing and has a purpose and not left to deteriorate.
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This one has an interesting history, at least to me. I love that it’s been cared for as well. Thanks, April 🙂
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Nice doors, Joey. Since this is “high end” office space, I’d like to see the inside, how they’ve treated the inside. This reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a friend of mine about where I went to school and how all of that has changed so much in 40 years. I’m not sure what happened to the building that served as my high school…it might be middle school now.
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Thanks 🙂
My high school is still a high school, and it was my father-in-law’s high school, and two of the kids had kindergarten in it. (I thought that was awesome, that we had kindergartners.) But now, there’s no old building, all new building, slowly, over the last…X amount of years.
I think most of the Indy schools have been kept up, although like yours, they’re not all used as schools these days.
One, I know, is now a municipal admin building and another is a community outreach.
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The doors are definitely the soul. Tarnished with age, hiding the vibrancy it once bestowed.
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So eloquent 🙂
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I greatly prefer these doors to those at my school. So much more character.
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These are doors that have seen a lot of shoes and boots walk by … and I’m guessing a few kicks along the way 😉
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Are those doors wood? They look like weathered wood. The Romantic in me wants to just keep them the way they are. The Pragmatist thinks they need a good sanding and a coat of varnish. I have missed posting anything for three weeks. This weather is not conducive for me to be wandering around. Maybe if I get out at sunrise?
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Right? What happened to those cooler days? Where did they go? Ugh. Too hot, summer! Too hot! It was 86 at 8am today :O Ridiculous!
As for the doors, I like them as they are 🙂
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Now, I will see doors as the souls of buildings, not their eyes. Thanks for sharing the photography and the information.
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🙂
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Beautiful building!
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Those doors remind me of my old junior high school, chipped paint and all! Love the lamp posts!
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I am so glad they kept the doors through the renovation process. That really is a huge building. I went to high school in a place like that and you really felt like a number. It’s interesting that the highway had the effect of rendering the school unsustainable. I wonder if anyone thought about that consequence ahead of time. At least they didn’t decide to tear it down. Great selection for Thursday Doors !
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I guessed that this was a school as soon as I saw those doors. It is a pretty impressive looking building. 🙂
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What a lovely thought- doors as the soul of a building. I really like that. In our cottage we have the same front door that my parents, grandparents, great grandparents all came and went through. It is a bit battered and worn- but I have never felt like getting it replaced. Now I know why. It is the soul of our cottage.
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That is precious ❤
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I love your comment that the doors are the ‘soul of the building.’ 🙂
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Looks like the high school I went to!
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We’re so quick to tear down and rebuild in this country that it gives me a fascination with old buildings. I love this one
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I agree. Thank you!
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Love the look of those doors – lots of character. And interesting history!
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So glad it’s still being used!! 🙂
janet
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Warning: This is a comment bomb. I’m practically dizzy from searching your archives. Please, please help a gal out. I’m looking for the post you did with Victo Dolore. *Hands folded in prayer, pleading eyebrows, sheepish grin*
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No, oh I didn’t post there, I commented on positivity there. Been a few weeks. So sorry. I should have been clearer.
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Ohhhhh, ok, gotcha. Do you remember what the post was about? Or the title?
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I do. Not the title, but it was about being positive.
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Okey dokey. Thank you. Just sent you email re: my book. When you have time, it’s waiting for you.
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Those doors look great. I also couldn’t tell if they were made of wood or brass but they looked like wood.
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They are wooden 🙂 Thanks!
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I love the old weathered doors! What a great variety of elective classes the last school had for teens to choose from!
I’m glad the building’s renovators had the foresight to keep the doors, and you’re right they are the soul of the building.
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Thanks 🙂
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Those are great doors, Joey. I’m glad the building is still in use today, it would be a shame to let it become derelict.
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Yes, I agree, thanks Jean 🙂
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Those are much prettier than any school doors I went through in my high school days. The loss of so many manufacturing jobs made a lot of what this place was teaching irrelevant. On the bright side it seems “the trades” are making a bit of a comeback lately.Things like welding, machining, cabinetmaking are seeing enrollment increases in most North American cities – and girls are getting into it too. Very encouraging 🙂
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It IS encouraging, but still not too affordable for the common man. My father always says a man should have a career and a trade.
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Perfect (nearly) last sentence. Yes, doors are “surely the souls of this building,” Joey!
I love the weathered wood with brass strip tacked along the edges. . . beautiful.
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Glad you like it 🙂
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It’s great that they’ve kept the building in use. And a rather impressively large building at that!
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i like the door is the soul too – and nice doors
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