Greenwood Elementary School

I was driving around Terre Haute the other day and I have seen this building many times and have always wondered what it is. Well it use to be Greenwood Elementary School. I have tried to find it in the data base for schools, but am unable to find why it closed. It is pretty amazing that this building is standing since it was built in 1908. I would have figured with the history Terre Haute has of tearing buildings down that this one would have followed suit after they no longer needed it for an elementary school.
I have been unable to figure out why they no longer use it as an elementary school or why they stopped using it in the first place. I don't know if this was a segregated school or if the attendance just became so low that they had to close it. I would love to get into this school and have a look around. Not only because I'm and education major and it fasinates me, but because I love going in old buildings and exploring to see what I will find.
This building now houses Freebirds Solution Center. It is a drug rehab facility. They offer a twelve step Christian based program to help people to over come their addictions. I think this is a very fitting thing to put in a elementary school. People are still helping eachother out and I think that is one of the most important things that could happen in a community.
Someday I may figure out what happened to the school that use to be housed in this building, but for now it will be a mystery. The building is still around so this mystery may be solved very soon. If I could somehow manange to get a transcript of who went to the school I may be able to figure out what happened to it, but until then we just have the picture I took to fill in the blanks.