Chenango Forks High School - Chenango Forks, NY - Former Schools on Waymarking.com

"More than a dozen years after a New York City developer bought the old Chenango Forks High School and announced plans for senior housing, the still-empty building is back on the market.

Those plans never materialized, and the building has suffered damage from the elements and vandalism from trespassers in the intervening years. The property’s listing has led to new hopes for revitalization...The school on Route 79 in the Town of Barker opened in 1929, expanded as enrollment grew through the 1960s and was repurposed as an elementary when the district built a new high school in 1967. It was renamed Charlotte Kenyon Elementary School in 1978 to honor a woman who taught there more than 40 years...The Chenango Forks Central School District vacated the Kenyon school in March 2002 and moved its 477 students in grades three through five into a new building near the middle and high schools. The district sold the building for $40,000 to Blackbird Inc. of New York City, and held a public auction for classroom materials that didn’t make the move. In May of that year, according to Press & Sun-Bulletin archives, Blackbird President Joe Cornacchia presented the Town of Barker with a $5 million revitalization plan that would include up to 100 senior housing units, and a restaurant, theater and health club that would be open to the public."

Address: 6630 New York 79 Chenango Forks, NY USA 13746 Web Site: [Web Link]

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