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Third Street School has changed many times. It started out as a two year high school, changed to a seventh and eighth grade building and later became an elementary school. The building was sold in 1977 and converted to the Chalkboard Apartments Building. |
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3rd Street School entrance with air raid shelter sign (at left) |
Metal rods through the building provide support for the building structure; these stars hold the end of the rods in place. |
Brick detail on exterior rear wall of 3rd Street School |
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EVIDENCE OF THE PAST When the
Chalkboard Apartments were used as a school, there was a big
playground on three sides of the building. When the facility
was turned into apartments the playground fence was torn down.
Most of the playground areas are used today for parking. Remnants
of the playground fence can still be found at the perimeter of
the property. Artifacts remain today showing where the original
playground fence was secured into cement footings (seen below). |
Chalkboard Apartments as seen today from 3rd Street. The parking lot on the right of the above photo and as seen below used to be a playground.
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| Decorative window above 3rd Street entrance. | Decorative curved windows have been replaced with storm windows and curved plywood painted panels. |
| PERKASIE SCHOOLS | CHESTNUT STREET | SOUTH PERKASIE | ARCH STREET | GUTH- PAST |
| 3RD STREET- Past | 3RD STREET- PRESENT | SELL - PERK H.S. | SOUTH M.S. | GUTH- PRESENT |
