January, 2007 photo by Warren Reed

Elyton School , Birmingham. This building was built in 1908. By 1923 it's 15 classrooms housed 619 students in grades 1-7.* Additions were built and renovations made duing is lifetime. 2007 sees it sitting mothballed, waiting an uncertain future.

* The Birmingham School Survey, 1923, Birmingham Board of Education

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