8. Elementary School Carpenter Road
Place: Flint, Michigan
Period: 1837
Expense: $1 million year prior to closure
Flint, Michigan was once well-known for being the birthplace of the renowned American corporation General Motors. In the 1930s, it gained notoriety for giving rise to the United Auto Workers union. These days, Flint is tragically remembered as a city that was, having experienced a high rate of crime, a notorious water-quality controversy, and general neglect.
Flint, Michigan’s Carpenter Road Elementary School ©r/Reddit/urbanexploration
Another abandoned structure that still haunts Flint is the Carpenter Road Elementary School. Due to district budget concerns, it closed in 2015, briefly leaving northeast Flint without an elementary school. The unsettling images serve as a sobering reminder of how far Flint still needs to go in order to address its problems.
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