School’s been out since 1963 for the small northern Colorado institution once known informally as the Cactus School.
Since then, the building in Carr has been used for storage, with most of the books, desks and other furnishings still there. Now the contents are about to go on the market.
For sale: Pull-down schoolroom maps, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s; student desks; fixtures; library tables; windows; doors; a cookstove; and vintage schoolbooks, including a 1909 Webster’s dictionary.
“The maps are pretty interesting,” said Jim Rohn, who owns JR’s Antiques in Ault.
“There are no dates on any of these maps, but they go far back. There’s one that has no Pakistan or Israel. Iran is Persia, Thailand is Siam, and Japan owned Korea.”
Prices range from $20 for a small paned window to about $100,000 for the school itself. The student desks represent various vintages from 1912, the year the school opened, to 1963, the year it closed when three schools were combined to form the Highland RE-9 school district.
“I’ve been an antiques dealer for more than 20 years, and if this school were closer to the metro area, someone would want to restore it really nicely,” Rohn said.
“It would make a heck of a mansion.”
Want to go? The sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 3, 4 and 5 at the school in downtown Carr.
Claire Martin
