Sperling Sites
The original Sperling School District was organized in April 1909 and became Sperling Consolidated School with Garnett School, Tremont School and Lone Star School. The two-storey four-classroom brick structure (erected in 1910) was destroyed by a fire started in coal stored in its basement on May 23, 1924. It was replaced by a one-storey four-classroom building designed by Winnipeg architect Alexander Melville that opened in November 1924. In January 1968 it became part of the Midland School Division. The former teacherage was sold in 1974 for a private residence. The school closed in 1987 and the building was demolished in early 2006. Its cornerstone and some bricks from the building are preserved in the wall of the picnic shelter.
Take a walk through Sperling and visit its Masonic Lodge (formerly the Pleasant Valley School building), St. Theresa RC Church (formerly Waddell School and now a seniors centre), Sperling United Church (private residence whose owners would put on theatre events and used their home as an studio / art gallery), and the war memorial that was once beside the legion building (demolished in 2011).
(Source: Manitoba Historical Society)
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