One of the classroom doors inside the old Milan Center School on the corner of Doty Road and Milan Center Road in rural Allen County, Indiana. The bumper sticker on the door has a phrase taken from the Bible. "Behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2"

Milan Center School originally opened in 1906 as a three room public school and it closed in 1972. The school was used as a Christian school or a church at some point. The classrooms are still decorated with religious signs, crosses, and Bible verses. It is currently owned by Milan Center Feed and Grain, which has a grain elevator and store across the street and an office building next to the school.

The crossroads where this building is located is marked on maps as a town called Milan Center, but there is no town. Its just a crossroads with a grain elevator, a church, and this former school. There are no houses nearby, just farmland.

This is the first of eight photographs that I have made of the Milan Center School.

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