Father-son Duo Renovating Dilapidated Schoolhouse

The structure, built in 1897 and located outside of Greentown near the Tipton County border, is one that's attracted only the ire of nearby farmers since its owner left in the late 1970s - at least until county officials decided to tear it down. The building is classified by Indiana Landmarks one notch below the Seiberling Mansion as a historical property that hasn't yet been registered, according to Glass, who hopes to eventually get the schoolhouse added to the Register of Historic Places in Indiana. The house now features a collapsed brick wall on its left side, white peeling doors falling off their hinges and blue tarp protecting a missing portion of roof above the rounded space Glass hopes to turn into a bathroom. Currently, the building, with its fractured yellow walls and boarded windows, mirrors a number of houses being targeted by city and county officials through their blight elimination programs and focus on dangerous, uninhabited properties. [...] he hopes to someday be sleeping under a former church altar archway and lounging in an spacious area once reserved for area schoolchildren. Inspiring his son's passion for historic renovation, the elder Glass, an electrical engineer, has spent 22 years modernizing a former orphanage in Tipton County, which doubles as the family home as he moves from room to room replacing windows and rewiring the building. Needless to say, the father-son duo began their renovation partnership in the home, with Derek Glass helping his dad on a litany of sometimes routine, yet always important, tasks. According to Shawn Glass, the family's home was acquired in 1929 by a woman determined to start an orphanage, only to eventually fall into disrepair until being discovered by his wife more than two decades ago. In relation to the challenge - a project most 20-somethings would laugh off as impossible - Derek Glass mimicked precisely the reasons introduced by his father for wan

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