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Archive for June 27th, 2008

Crusader Clinic and 1920s-era slate blackboards

Add comment June 27th, 2008

Crusader Clinic is renovating — and that’s where the blackboards come in.  By the way, there are 14 of them, and they’re available for a donation.

Here’s how it came about. Crusader’s building at 1200 W. State St. in Rockford used to be Muldoon High School, a Catholic girls’ school. The school started in 1929 and operated there until 1979.

Now Crusader Clinic is renovating the entire third floor of the building, and has removed the original slate blackboards from the walls.  They are 78 inches wide and 47 inches deep, and Crusader wants to recycle them by making them available to people in the community.  All it asks is a donation to the Crusaders Health Foundation, and that you be able to transport the blackboard (or blackboards) of your choosing.

Four sets of 1920s-era metal school lockers also are available.

If you’re interested in owning one of these pieces of Rockford history, call Linda Niemiec, vice president of development for Crusader Clinic at 815-490-1621.