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o most people, the crumbling brick building at 1116 Mount Joy Road in Manheim looked beyond saving. Abandoned for decades, riddled with holes and home to generations of pigeons, it was little more than a ruin with a roof. But to Ken and Teresa Nolt, the structure felt like a calling - their personal Noah’s Ark. It was a project that didn’t make sense on paper but somehow made sense in their hearts. “We live in the neighborhood, and driving by, we’d say, ‘Wow, that is a cool, old building. It would be cool to own that some day,’” Teresa recalled. “We didn’t really have a vision of what we would do with it, because we didn’t know what it looked like inside, but we felt like this is what God was asking us to do.” In December 2020, the couple purchased the property, once home to a
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two-room schoolhouse built for children in the Sporting Hill and surrounding areas. Constructed in 1890, the school served students in grades one through eight until 1952, when it closed and students moved to a new school. Over the years, the building was home to an egg processing facility, a lawn mower repair shop, an auction house and a car sales lot. The Nolts spent the next few years restoring the space and transforming it into Schoolhouse 1890, which opened to the public for private events in March 2024. For their efforts, the couple received the Adaptive Reuse Award from the Lancaster Historic Preservation Trust at the C. Emlen Urban Awards program in May of this year. Restoring and renovating the site was daunting. The Nolts discovered an old boat in the rear of the property, complete with a 30-year-old tree growing out of it. The attic was full of pigeon carcasses, and
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From funds for student activities to providing money for preservation of historical materials, the annual grants from the Women’s Club of Manheim are ensuring organizations of all types continue to thrive in the community. The club distributed $15,000 in grant funds to Manheim nonprofit groups in late May, said Lucile Longo, chair of the grants committee. “We disseminate grant applications to prior recipients, post it on our Facebook page and personally reach out to other nonprofits in the area,” Longo said, explaining the grant
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