Prominent Manitowoc building for sale again. Here’s the asking price and more details.
MANITOWOC — The former McKinley school building, 1010 Huron St., is once again for sale.
The brick, three-story, 40,000-square-foot historic building has a price tag of $379,900.
Listing agent Nikki Kapellen, a Realtor and broker with Pleasant View Realty, said current owner Ortlieb Manitowoc LLC has decided to shift to other priorities.
Some demolition has been done at the site, and most furniture has been removed or moved to the basement of the former school, built in 1891, she said.
Asbestos has been removed and some work on flooring has been done, but Kapellen said the site could be used for a number of purposes.
The site is zoned an R4 residential district, meaning it could be used for single- or two-family homes, but developers could ask city leaders for conditional permission to create a larger housing issue.
Kapellen said she’s had a few initial showings of the building, but no offers.
The school sits on about 2 acres in a residential area of Manitowoc. The building was constructed in 1891, and served as an elementary, junior and high schools for the Manitowoc Public School District over the decades. District administrators repurposed the site as McKinley Alternative Academy in 2007.
Just more than a decade later, the district moved its alternative high school and other services into the former Stangel Elementary School building under a restructuring plan. \
As a result of shrinking enrollment, the district moved ninth graders to Lincoln High School and Stangel students and staff to the former Riverview Early Learning Center.
The district sold the building to Ortlieb two years ago.
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According to the Jan. 26, 2022, minutes of the Manitowoc Common Council’s Plan Commission, Patrick Ortlieb said he planned to remodel the site into a 60-bed community recovery/treatment center and lease the facility to Pathways for a Better Life, LLC.
That plan never materialized.
According to the real estate listing, the property includes many classrooms, a gymnasium, a kitchen, offices, an elevator, parking lot and several communal spaces.
A Wisconsin Historical Society 2017 document notes the “Neoclassical school was built in 1891. Constructed of cream brick, the building was designed by prominent local architect Christian H. Tegen. The building features a hipped, asphalt shingled roof, limestone block foundations and cream brick walls.”
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Additions in 1899 and 1910 expanded the main building to its current footprint.
In 1938, a gym was built north of the school building as part of a New Deal Works Progress Administration project. The interior features wooden arched laminate beams across the ceiling, the first use of such beams in Manitowoc.
The building was remodeled to serve as administrative offices in 1982 and turned back into the alternative charter school in 2007.
Interested in viewing the school? Here’s the listing.
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