Comments on: Strange Geographies: the Forgotten High School of Goldfield, Nevada

By: amanda

amanda — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:23:30 +0000

i love old places and digging through them . i have this one place that i would love to dig through in Pickwick, MN, where my grandparents live. it’s an old school in a small town of barely 500 people that is only a few classrooms and a very small play yard. it was ran by only two teachers in the beginning. those two people happen to be my kindergarten and 8th grade teacher in Onalaska, WI by pure luck. this school is where they met and eventually married and still for what i’m guessing is close to 35-40 yrs. well anyways these posting just reminded me of that school, so interesting

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:38:46 +0000

That is just creepy – it’s just amazing… all that effort to build up the town only to have it die off shortly after.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:51:54 +0000

If I were Bill Gates I would fully restore
it and turn it into home for gambling addicts in recovery.

Seriously though, I have driven through Goldfield twice and have thought about this building and its origins.
Thanks for the photos and info

By: Brandy Schroeder

Brandy Schroeder — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:43:11 +0000

This would actually make a great manor house if it was restored. Problem is that there is not much around Goldfield now. I actually went to Google maps to find it and at first I thought my connection was slow and I needed to wait for it to finish drawing. Then I realized it was done, but there just wasn’t anything around to show.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:16:57 +0000

My town had a school building that was the new high school in 1930 with a huge (ugly) addition from the early 50′s. When they were planning new construction back in the 90′s they said they were going to keep the art deco 1930 building, but then they tore it down. It was stone, or fake stone, every bit of which had the sculpted ornamentation of 1930 art-deco style. It’s a shame, it was like a small version of Rockefeller plaza or the Chrysler Building.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:48:00 +0000

OMG, i just LOVE these pics…. I’m upsessed with the 50′s & 60′s, and i would kill to see this place!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:08:48 +0000

This must have been a beautiful old building in its day. Since the article is dated 2009, is there any update on the progress the volunteers are making in their restoration work?

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:30:23 +0000

I love how the pop quiz and other chalkboard scrawls give this school a feeling that it was vacated in the middle of the school day. I don’t know what time the fire happened, so it very well could have been the source of dropped chalk!

By: janna

janna — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:52:46 +0000

there are at least 3 ghostly figures in the background of one of these photos…the one of the yellow work light. i’m surprised no one else noticed

By: jacks

jacks — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:45:08 +0000

its the school from Fallout 3