Hobart Then and Now: The Banks Schoolhouse

Circa 1897 and 2010.



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Top image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

This little brick schoolhouse still stands along State Road 51 south of Tenth Street. The notes on the display board at the Hobart Historical Museum give the date of the top photo as circa 1897, and add that the Banks schoolhouse was the "last one-room schoolhouse built." Built where, it doesn't say — in Hobart? in Lake County?

What's amazing to me in the 1897 photo is how empty the land around it is. No next-door neighbors, no strip mall, no hospital. No trees, even.

The schoolhouse is now a private residence, enlarged but still charming.

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I'm doing a lot of then-and-now posts lately. Why? Because they're easy and it's springtime and I'm working like a horse outside every day and I'm tired. And there are so many interesting old photos at the Hobart Historical Museum!