With your help, there has been substantial progress improving the condition of the interior of the building. We are so thankful for your kind donations which have been essential for making it happen. Read on!

We included the last planned item for the exterior, the crawl space vents, in this School Bell Fundraising campaign. They were completed last summer. At this writing, they remain in pristine operable condition. That is, there have been no pests entering this space. Thank you!

In this first phase of interior work, we set our goal to make the south door operable and to remake the look and condition of the wainscoting under the classroom windows. Because of the building’s age and the length of time between updating efforts, we were advised (and passed on to you) to be prepared for surprises after the work began.

Surprise! That was good advice. In the course of working on the south door, our contractor discovered that the threshold of the door refused to stay level. He opened enough of the classroom floor to see the source of that problem. (You may have read about this on the Projects page.) Work on the door was paused and all attention was focused on levelling the floor, quoted at $12,650. This work was unplanned but was included in our School Bell Fundraising Campaign as the “Miscellaneous Other Repairs”.

Thank you for great progress in filling the School Bell! We now know, though, that the full $30,000 is needed. Please do whatever you can to preserve this darling gem for the children now and in their futures.