Balfour Public School
This is the former Balfour Public School. It was built sometime between 1899 and 1910. Other than that, we know very little about this school, or what happened to it. If you know more about this school, we would invite you to click on the photo below and add your comments on the ensuing page. Note the former Balfour church in the background.
We found this postcard going through some old files but we have no record of who sent it to us. Thank you, whoever you are.
See the rest of our Balfour material here.
We have performed a restoration and repair on this postcard and as a result, the version posted here is copyright Sonic Tremor Media LLC
My mom and all her brothers and sister went here. It closed in the 70′s. it’s still standing although the roof is caved in.
This school is no longer standing. The newer school, abandoned, which is still standing in Balfour can be seen here. http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2005/06/13/balfour-nd/
thanks for the picture as well as the thought about the school as my wife and myself went to school there. I went to school from the eighth grade and on as they closed the school in my town Kief. I enjoyed the time spent as well as all the reunions that we came back for as had them every five years. My Father-in-law was the janitor and my Mother-in-law was the cook. We married a year after we left school and moved to Seattle. We now live in Yakima Washington and retired to the fast life of yard, flower, garden, and taking breaks and working on underground sprinklers. Thanks for all the memeories as like to go back in a persons mind and think just what would I do different now.
I think this is the school that my grandparents used the bricks when they built there house.
Maybe that’s not the right building than
I think the photo on the postcard is of an earlier smaller school building which was replaced by the present building which is in a derelict, near ruinous condition. Here is a photo I took of how the newer building looks today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55048235@N05/6990539991/
You got it, Colby. We have that school in our other Balfour gallery… http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2005/06/13/balfour-nd/