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Poted at 9:46 PM, Oct 13, 2016 and lat updated 12:46 PM, Oct 14, 2016
What was once a thriving school built back in
1917 is little more than a skeleton today, but not
for long.
Take two married retired teachers, multiply it
with the old Huston School, add a little TLC and
this funny math equals the dream home of
Leigh Evans and her husband Allen.
"It stood here all this time and waited for
somebody to love it back into existence and so I
think it needs to be honored in that way," said
Leigh. "I think it's beautiful. I think she's got a
lot of charm to her."
A wonderful place to play hooky from school,
but still remain in the classroom in the perfect
retirement home.
"We want to make our lives fit inside of it," said
Leigh.
It seems like a textbook move for the two former
public servants who spent a generation teaching
children, but one tough test remains.
"When we met out here I thought it was a demo
job," said John Odom of HMH construction.
The man tasked with transforming the school
insists the plan is no reading rainbow.
"Usually we have a set of plans and we have
specs and we have stuff that we can go off of
where water is where sewer is where those kind
of things are. We don't really have that, we have
some stuff from the early 1900's from sketches
so those are the things we have to be
cognizant of. We really don't know where some
of the stuff is that we are digging around," said
Odom.
Recess is over and the thinking caps are on, the
project is now underway. Brick by brick and
board by board, they hope the remodel makes
this old school house rock.
"We want to keep the outside front especially
the same. We are going to keep the old Huston
School date up on top of the school," said Leigh.
"We are really excited to be able to just be a part
of it. It makes me feel blessed to be able to
envision it being here for another 100 years that
would be very perfect."
If you want to follow along with the renovations,
you can find a link to the Evans' restoration blog
here
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