Abandoned School - Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2018
- In this episode we explore an abandoned historic school that was completely flooded during Hurricane Katrina.
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This is my old high school...pretty sad...i remember walkin these hallways..terry mcgahae was principle.
James D What high school was this?
Lauren210 They said in the video. Holy Cross School
Holy cross high school
I still cant believe this is my high school
When did you go there?
4:10 those bio books are in better condition then the ones in my school
J purrp lol
Yep
Yep the ones we have are old and destroyed by kids that don't care
Truth. The kids at the HS I graduated from still use those same books. We had them in 06 and they were still old. 11 years later... Still there and used
Not hundreds of years old but I felt dated seeing that biology book in an abandoned building. We're officially old you guys.
I miss my locker! @4:06
Would that be the one with the lock still on it? Ever tempted to go their and reclaim what's in it, or is it just empty?
Frank locker is at 4.20
really enjoying your old psychedelia art haha, must be weird to see
oh yeah i see it! Have you gone back and taken some of the drawings? And the magnet? Would be a cool memory to keep
4:20
I went to the Holy Cross’s rival high school, Jesuit. We rebuilt, and the walls now have a solid blue line almost 4 feet up the wall on the first floor marking the water line from the storm. The quote written above the line says, “Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember” (from Virgil’s Aeneid).
It's true though. I hated highchool but still miss the experience.
What an awesome quote and remembrance… love that.
Ursuline girl here. My aunt was the counselor at Jesuit for a really long time, including during Katrina.
Bet this school was as beautiful on the inside as the outside when it first opened with the brick and iron wrought railings! Schools back then at least were built with aesthetic beauty in mind and not modeled after prisons like schools today.
Barbara Hineline I can ask people who went to that school and I can tell you
Populations were lower back then too, could spend the money on things like that. Now we need quantity. Plus its meant to be a utilitarian facility anyway.
Though I do agree that this school was pretty nice looking.
Barbara Hineline it was the most beautiful campus in all of New Orleans. I graduated from there in 02. This is my first time seeing it since Katrina. I guess I wasn’t thinking too hard about it, but the graffiti was surprising. Then again - if these guys are in here documenting - of course people are in there spray painting. The new Holy Cross campus is phenomenal; it’s a shame that the old school is just rotting. There’s no doubt in my mind, alumni put all the supports up in this building to keep it from collapsing. Shute I’d bet my life that alumni would restore this building if they could.
The population point is as ridiculous as can be. It's just about taste and/or priorities ." could spend the money on things like that"? Lower population, fewer taxpayers, less money to spend
They don’t just *look* like prisons now...
I actually sent a message to the owner of a locker on facebook because i saw his name and he is watching this video now!!
Thank you for sharing!
Struwex.. Wow.
How thoughtful. I bet it brought back a lot of memories for them.
r/thathappened
/r/nothingeverhappens
frank stuart not a problem! :D
Graduated from HC in 1982. And there was no AC back then but had high ceilings and large windows that allowed for a good draft. Up until Katrina, the building was well preserved. The school relocated to another part of the city. The new school was built using the same architecture of this building. The architects were graduates of Holy Cross. Thanks for the tour!
Wish I knew you was going to be in New Orleans. I have lived here all my life. Katrina was the worst for me. Katrina put a tree in my house. I had to climb over the tree to get into my master bedroom. I even lost count of how many cuts I got. New Orleans was never the same since. I use to love living here but now I hate it. You was in the lower ninth ward which was hit hard. A barge went thru the levee.
History
In 1849 the Brothers, Priests and Sisters of Holy Cross arrived in New Orleans, after having established the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and took over an orphanage for the boys and girls who survived a plague. This orphanage, along with the first Ursuline School for Girls (the oldest Catholic School in America), was destroyed to make room for the 1923 Industrial Canal (the same Industrial Canal which experienced levee failures that flooded large parts of New Orleans twice, with Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005).
Historic Holy Cross Campus in the Lower 9th Ward
In 1871 Holy Cross moved to its historic site, which then was a farm named St. Isidore's farm, 4950 Dauphine Street, and built a renowned "collegiate-styled campus" and established in 1879 its current school, bordered by the high Mississippi River levee. This area has since become a Federal Historic District known as the "Holy Cross Historic District".
First chartered by the State of Louisiana in 1890, the name was changed to Holy Cross in 1895 when the present Administration Building was dedicated. A boarding program, which continued until 1973, attracted as many as 150 students annually from across the South as well as from Central and South America.≠
Holy Cross relocation
With Hurricane Katrina, the campus, like the majority of the city, was flooded by the Levee failures on the Industrial Canal and levee "over-topped" by storm surge along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) that destroyed St. Bernard Parish and Eastern New Orleans) and Greater New Orleans in August 2005. The school has relocated to 5500 Paris Avenue, the campuses of the former St. Francis Cabrini Parish and Redeemer-Seton High School on Paris Avenue between Filmore and Prentiss Avenue in the Gentilly/7th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. Demolition of the various structures which once stood has been completed. This is one of the many steps in the construction of the new location which is now Holy Cross High School. The state of the art high school, middle school, and administration building have been completed.
The Advisory Committee of the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries informed Holy Cross School that it has been chosen to receive a $50,000 grant to purchase books for the school's library. She attended Holy Cross on Thursday, April 19, 2007 to present the 14 grantees in Mississippi and Louisiana, including Holy Cross, with the donation.
New campus
New Holy Cross campus on Paris Avenue, July 2010
Holy Cross School is now in the process of building a brand new, state-of-the-art campus on Paris Avenue in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. Buildings that have been completed include the Middle and High School buildings, with the Administration building coming online in January 2010. The campus will be completely covered by wireless internet, with all security and maintenance maintained through computer automation.
Buildings now in construction include the school's enormous gymnasium, as well as the maintenance building. The gymnasium will house an indoor basketball court with stadium seating, a full-size indoor track, collegiate level locker rooms, weight rooms, several practice rooms for karate and wrestling, along with a snack area and band rehearsal floor. The maintenance building houses the chillers for the entire school's air conditioning system, consisting of four 400ton chillers. All systems are fully automated with remote control access by internet.
Additionally, the school hopes to complete a chapel, pool building, along with a separate performing arts center and cafeteria. In the future to school hopes to cap its size at 1000-1200 enrollees in a few years.
CJ Hernandez
CJ.... that was informative.
After huge environment events, sadly nothing seems the same.
Were the kids ever allowed back in to try and collect their things that weren't damaged by the hurricane?
CJ Hernandez wow god bless
CJ Hernandez do you still live there. .. upload some videos! !
New Orleans is like the Tijuana of the United States. Thats what make it a colorful and interesting place. Unfortunately, like Tijuana and Porto Ricko and other third world countries, New Orleans is also a third world dump just like them, same problems with crime, minorities, etc.. Here it is 2019 and New Orleans still hasnt' recovered from a hurrcane that happen 20 years ago??? That is exackly what happen when you have dumbocrats as your elected officials, they misspend the funds just like in Porto Ricko!
I was a junior in high school when hurricane Katrina hit. I went to an all girls school, and I remember some guys from Holy cross had to come to our school because they weren’t sure if they would reopen. Very interesting to see what the school looks like now.
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@@ooobangla241 OK
I was barely two years old lol. My brother was born about two years later.
I didn't get the effect of it though because I didn't live where it hit.
Correction- I was in Florida, but it really was nothing for them. I would have to fact check myself to be sure.
Also me and my friends were the ones who set those classroom desks up like that at 7:45 lol we wanted to get a good shot for Instagram. They were scattered all over the room before
David Fillmann : you did gud.
Lmao! Whats your insta?
Not a proper Proper People video if a piano/keyboard is encountered and no key is tested.
@Chongo T.V. There was one: 11:00 :)
It is incredible to see how much damage Katrina had done to this school's building. Be careful you guys of the molds, don't want to see you get sick from it.
As someone that was in band back in high school, it makes me sad to think that all the school and student owned instruments are probably still there and damaged beyond repair.
As someone who is still in high school band, this thought breaks my heart.
As someone who just loves music it absolutely hurts my heart
@@katymccoy5581 Same.
Being a band kid and seeing probably decades worth of music destroyed; music people probably really cared about and put effort into playing; honestly really makes me emotional.
I play the drum set (was first chair percussion in my high school band and played the snare) and I visited this place exactly one month ago (May 7th, 2021). I left a pair of vic firth drum sticks in the band room as a memorial to them
My grandmother has been playing the piano her entire life and the organ for our church since the 70s. She's going to be 84. She tried to teach me but I sadly didn't put in the effort and in retrospect it was a huge mistake (I was around 7 or 8 and just didn't understand). She has sheet music that is probably easily available on the internet today but took her a lifetime to collect and purchase.. the piano that was in her house was a baby grand that's been in our family since it was purchased by my great-great-grandfather. She had it tuned regularly and it was a thing of beauty. Even though I don't play and forgot how to read music I can absolutely appreciate what your saying. I can only imagine what was lost in this campus
I agree. I play many instruments including the drums and seeing all that music destroyed make me sad
the layout of this school is so odd i've never seen anything like it before
foxymulder looks pretty normal to me, but then again I did go to school in New Orleans
Well he did just said the school dates back to the 1870”s
foxymulder . Maybe but it's unique and I'm sure was quite beautiful in it's day.
I was hoping the school was full of black kids like in the black school violence video playlists Colin Flaherty has made. People need to buy my "Impact" a James Grider novel on Amazon and linked in my videos so I can afford to move out of the desert into a wooded area like the one the school in the video stands in. Um, what would've happened if the Proper People picked the time to go into an abandoned King's Park asylum in NYC right during the moment Pendergast and Osmian were facing each other down in there in the novel "The City of Endless Night?" I bet Osmian would've shot them dead. Hmm? Gotta think about that stuff.
what are you on about?
Sadly I don't see a way that saving this building would end up being cheaper and safer than tearing it down and building something new.
I agree ..it would cost more money for renovation than just building something completely new
Pop Naty it’s been rebuilt in a different location
The best thing would be completely remove the insides and leave just the outer walls as a memorial park. Let it mellow as a ruin.
They can’t legally, it’s a historic landmark, a 150 year old building. I graduated from there almost 20 years ago..all the other buildings on campus were demolished except for this one.
That building has been there for over a century. They probably won’t tear it down. Renovating it and making it a historical building would be nice if only they had the money.
With all the mold spores you seriously should be wearing masks
Plus all the chipped paint and debris everywhere. That stuff can be toxic
"All of New Orleans is a basement"
Tru that. How can u build a city that's under sea level?
@Dustin Eward true
@@jenniferwheat9889 But they did build this city. And it has survived so many hurricanes.....though devestating damage was done. But every time, WE'VE BOUNCED BACK, STRONGER THAN BEFORE!
Katrina was the first hurricane that brought political crap into the midst, allowing places like this and Charity Hospital to be abandoned.
I love it here but dis place always floods all the history here is just amazing
@@ilovesteveclark6084the population doesn’t reflect that.
That's a beautiful old building. I hope they do end up being able to save and restore the place. It was so eerie seeing those lockers still full of books.
I've been here! There's another even better school in the ninth Ward up in press park! Y'all should check it out! You gotta be creative to get inside tho it's sealed up pretty well
There was so many chairs just chillin', so disappointed I didn't get to hear you'll say it at least once!
Wow this is crazy. All the stuff in the lockers looked crazy. The whole scene was straight out of Silent Hill!
Although a publicly funded school in Illinois, it's still kind of sad that the textbooks in my highschool are exactly like the ones in the lockers in the video.
Holy Cross was open up until the week of Hurricane Katrina. Because it's such an old building, I think most of the damage was from wind. It's really close to the river, and the land rises near the river, so the water depth probably wasn't more than a few feet there. The worst of the flooding was about 10 blocks and more away from the river where the floodwall broke and water settled into the low lying areas as deep as 12 feet.
Shared with my friends who graduated from Holy Cross in the 90s.
My dad went here in the early to mid 80s. I wish I could have seen this school then but I'm at Fontainebleau high right now but wish I could have seen it
504RoadTrips just subscribed! I just was calling businesses in New Orleans, LA for work....
There was one picture in a first floor room where the wall appeared to have a water mark/line about five feet up.
For a time I had thought the school had escaped the flooding of the Lower 9th Ward that resulted from both the tidal surge coming up the MR GO shipping channel and the breach of the floodwall on Deslonde St. that let the Industrial Canal empty into the area but the waters did reach all the way to the levee. The campus and the immediate neighbourhood ended up under five feet of water.
Thank you for switching back to the old intro
Tor it’s different for different types of videos
Holy Cross High School, Lower Ninth Ward just outside of St. Bernard Parish. Passed through here regularly when heading to New Orleans to visit family. I lived in Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish, lost everything.
sorry to hear that
So sorry to hear. I was fortunate enough to live in a higher flood zone during Katrina. Hope you guys have rebuilt since then. It's so heartbreaking to see so many buildings still vacant since Katrina wiped everything out.
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well they know it now
So sad to see such a historical building reduced to basically a trash heap. I really love the architectural design of the school.
Always a good day when I see a proper people video in my notifications
sigh... just saw someone said pretty much the same thing.. I'm so original it hurts
I love watching your videos. I've always been fascinated with exploring, abandoned buildings, and history, so this is so my cup of tea. You guys are such an inspiration. I gotta ask, how do you guys find these places??
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One of my friends went to this school before it closed he said his locker was 1021 if i am remembering correctly it's insane seeing it like this
Imagine trying to focus on a test, while kids play basketball right above you. That would be annoying.
The stuff of the first floor looks like a casualty of the hurricane, but the upper floors? I think a lot of that had a head start.
I feel sorry for the old computers, :( They just want love
+Agent Fungus The green letter ones were the coolest. Not that I would like to use one every day, mind you.
Me too
@Agent Fungus those computers was been made somewhere in 2000s so it cloud contain some games, pictures, and other internet stuff
If I was there I would be very tempted to take one, bit it’s illegal
I’m from Ohio, but I made the 1000 mile trip 4 different times to help home owners build new home. I worked in a forgotten town named Pearlington, MS. Pearlington is right on the coast and right on the border with LA. Katrina actually made land right at the town of Pearlington. I built or helped build 17 homes. I never met such grateful people than those I met in Pearlington. They couldn’t believe that people from so far away would come and help them.
That's a wonderful thing you did
Thank you
RH Shoe if I look at the weather app on my phone when I’m in the front of the house, it says I’m in Slidell. If I look at the app when I’m in my room in the back of the house, it says pearlington.
Honestlt the quality of your videos makes me so happy. I cant stand low quality exploring because if i wanna pause and look at something i cant. Plus this offers a surreal first person view. Thank you for all you work and devotion into the explorations. Its awesome!!
What a beautiful building! So sad it will never be restored. Looks like someone tried though. Great video guys.
I never belive that they restore that school... its seems so bad contition that it is better demolish,and built a compleatley new one!
chimai001 it’s been rebuilt in another location
The present Holy Cross school is located on Paris Ave. The new Administration Building is a very close architectural replica of the original here, with all modern facilities of course and a few that could never have been crammed into the old building. I visited the new campus on the occasion of the 25th reunion of my graduating class and it's all state of the art and well laid out.
When I was here last year I didn't even bother going to the third floor after seeing what I saw. Knowing my luck, I would have fell through the floor. Then would have been walking around with wooden leg and a kickstand the rest of my life. 🏚️😷
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thanks for the continued episodes guys REALLY love your content, hands down i can say you guys are the best urban explorers who produce content keep it up!
Very sad way to abandon a school...yet very creepy place. Thank y'all for the video and stay safe
Awwwwwwww, that Packard Bell monitor at 12:38 :(
looked burned... did the storm caused it?
Another great video guys ! That's the first school I've seen in that bad of shape. Looking forward to your next video!
Always a pleasure, keep up the great work
So, that attic door wasn't actually an attic door, it was a vent to allow hot air to rise and escape. Just in case y'all didn't figure that out for yourselves :)
Do you guys worry about/take precautions regarding black mold? You do a lot of urbex in places with water damage and mold, I know you carry respirators, but I rarely see you using them
I always get unnecessarily excited when you guys come to New Orleans since I’m from around there. It’s also fitting that this is being posted around Mardi Gras!
My high school was/is a sister school with Holy Cross and we took in a lot of their students during the hurricane. Mind-blowing to actually see the destruction wrought on the school, all these years later.
Guys your productions are always really good... love your vids.
It's always a good day when new content comes from The P.P.
Mr. Swirly: say that out loud. That could be misconstrued in SUCH a bad way! Lmao
This place is amazing! What a shame it has been left to rot! Yes, it would have taken a lot of $ to fix it up, but now it is most likely beyond repair,
WOW Awesome vid. Shame the building is falling apart.
Keep up with the Amazing stuff you do guys from a Fan in ENGLAND UK
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sugarcubestore I fall asleep to their videos too. Not in a Boring way but their voices are so relaxing
Yes, it's having the sound of them talking quietly and their feet rustling in the debris. It's very ASMR!
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Getting the notification that you guys uploaded a new video always feels like Christmas, and then the intro cutscene gets me all hyped up! :D Come to Europe, we have awesome urbex here!
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Excellent find. So sad. How many memories those walls must have seen. Thanks for the opportunity to see Katrinas wrath
these are the kind of videos I love seeing from you guys good stuff.
Great vid, guys! My sister lived in New Orleans for around 15 years and our family was all there last in 2004 for her wedding. Luckily they moved later that year! The city is still recovering from that terrible mess!
You guys should try and check some of the buildings in Port Arthur, TX sometime. Another town devastated by multiple hurricanes. The whole city is eerie.
Great video guys!
Good times these vids always calm me down. Thanks guys!
The decay is amazing. I can understand the flooded floors but even higher up that building is going fast.
Love your videos! Just wanted to let you know the paneling you pointed out is actually called lathe, it’s what they spread the plaster on.
You know it's so funny to me... they will visit adventure parks and know who disegned the coasters and what kinds and stuff but even in their recent videos I've heard them still not calling it right. Maybe because I'm a builder and live in a 96 year old building it always stands out to me also. Even to just say it has plaster walls instead of boards or wooden strips or whatever else they call it lol
So sad, so much destruction by Katrina ☹️
amazing footage guys I love videos like this one . love you guys be safe
I really love this channel ... I look forward to each show. Great job guys!
Wow. I paused the video to say hello proper people. I got lucky finding this so early. I was thinking to myself. It would be so cool if proper people uploaded a video and Viola! Yaaaa
Great video. That looked like it was an amazing building, so sad it would have been so vibrant before Katrina.
Keep up the amazing work keep making videos love your guys videos
This exploration is so unique! Keep up the good work.
Thank you people for being so damn proper!
You guys inspired me to do my own urbexing. Love this channel ^_^
You guys continue to put out some of the best urbex videos on CZcams.... Everytime I hear your opening theme, I know I'm about to see another good show.
Wow so incredible. A beautiful building just completely gone. Great documentation!
Nice work Bryan and Michael! Thanks for braving abandoned places and sharing your journeys! 🤘🏼
**sees hurricane Katrina in the title**
*more like hurricane tortilla*
Never ever get rid of your intro omg 😍 it’s so amazing!!!!!!! Y’all should definitely have a show on discovery channel or something. For real.
With all the mold in that building you guys REALLY need to be wearing masks!!!!!! Thank you for another awesome video!
The boards are from extraction teams. At least that's what I learned from being in the national guard.. who knows
“I don’t trust these stairs.”
Proceeds to walk right next to each other and right down the center of the stairs.
Super Video as always, Bryan and Michael. I really like your exploration videos. Have a nice weekend. Many greetings from Germany.
Good job you two! Sad it so far gone.
Y'all in town for Mardi Gras?
Have a good time!
Who else watches these at night?
Nick Creeks me! It makes the experience so much better. Lol
Jennifer tootoo yup
Nick Creeks
Deffinity - I'm init
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Great vid! I especially enjoyed seeing the lockers still with items
absolutely amazing layout of an abandoned school, Thanks.
I live 15 minutes from this school and let me tell you, stay out of it! Drug dealers and the homeless have been seen using the building as a trading site.
I went inside last year and I was strapped just in case lmao
I think about that every time I watch these videos I hope to God these guys are carrying when they go into these places. Not to mention they should be wearing boots not sneakers I mean they could step on infected needles and sh*t. And the mold I can't imagine how much black mold they're breathing in.
dude thats holy cross i go to the new campus
Same here
Some of the old woodwork and glass work on these Victorian buildings and buildings from this era is so beautiful and cool!!! Wows me everytime
Great explore guys. Stay safe out there.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been watching all sorts of abandoned videos from a lot of different channels. Multiple sad, horrible, scary backstories to all those places. But, for some reason, as you guys were walking through this school, I hot really sad. tiers sprung into my eyes. I almost burst out crying multiple times. So I paused the video to see what was affecting me. I am not from the United States and was quite young when Hurricane Katrina hit. So I don't think I fully knew the extent of that disaster until this very moment. I live in a country that doesn't get ver many earthquakes or hurricanes. The worst thing we get are sandstorms, but they are, for the most part, harmless. I just thought it was crazy how I never fully grasped how much that hurricane affected people.
School: we will become historic!
Hurricane Katrina: Hold my coffee
School: Becomes historic anways
We relocated
When I visit my son @ LSU .. I’ll be swinging by here to check things out !! 😊thx for sharing
it’s super interesting and sad to see the lockers full of stuff. great video and cool building
How often do you guys need to go get penicillin shots and/or get treated for mold inhalation?
Mold isn't very dangerous to most people, even black mold.
I used those same biology and math books, also!
I had the same biology and algebra 2 books, but I graduated in 2014 so that really makes me see how old the books we were using where.
The scary music and the tone of voice at the start totally freaks me out. Yall do a great job