A view of the Farrar school in Farrar taken from the city cemetery across the street

School was completed in 1922 and housed first grade through 12th grades

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By DANN HAYES dhayes1@dmreg.com

The school house in Farrar is a three-story structure (with a gym in the basement) built across from a cemetery on six acres donated to the local school district in 1919.

Farrar, located about 15 or so miles northeast of Des Moines near highway 65, was completed in 1922 school started for first through 12th grades.

According to Will Conkel, owner of C & H Home Remodeling, and the volunteer building engineer

One of the classrooms inside the school with desks, chairs and equipment that were in the school when Nancy Oliver and her husband James bought the building.

for the Farrar school, the last high school class graduated in 1958 when they consolidated when the Bondurant-Farrar Community School District was formed.

Read more from the original source:
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