An old school building in Nevada, Iowa, has been transformed into a Midwestern dream home. The 22,000-square-foot property — nicknamed the "Prairie Castle" — has just hit the market for $1.75 million. Friedrich Iowa Realty listing agent Luke Jensen detailed in an interview with Fox News Digital how the original 1923 township school was converted into a private residence.
The school district educated K-12 students in the building until 1991, when it was consolidated into another school. The property was acquired in 2006 by Jensen’s parents, who were inspired to revamp the deteriorated building creatively into a place where they could live and work. "They meticulously went through and reclaimed whatever could be reclaimed and embarked on a really ambitious re-imagination of the school into a residence," he said.
So, throughout the property … a lot of original materials like hardwood floors, exposed brick, chalkboards, doors, anything that was salvageable found a new and re-purposed life inside the building," he said. The three-story house is located about five miles away from Iowa State University’s campus and has 360-degree views of rural Iowa. The property was designed differently on each level, Jensen noted.