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Posted at 9:46 PM, Oct 13, 2016 and last updated 3:46 AM, Oct 14, 2016
What was once a thriving school built back in 1917 is little more than a skeleton today, but not for long. Take two married retired teachers, multiply it with the old Huston School, add a little TLC and this funny math equals the dream home of Leigh Evans and her husband Allen. "It stood here all this time and waited for somebody to love it back into existence and so I think it needs to be honored in that way," said Leigh. "I think it's beautiful. I think she's got a lot of charm to her." A wonderful place to play hooky from school, but still remain in the classroom in the perfect retirement home. "We want to make our lives fit inside of it," said Leigh. It seems like a textbook move for the two former public servants who spent a generation teaching children, but one tough test remains. "When we met out here I thought it was a demo job," said John Odom of HMH construction. The man tasked with transforming the school insists the plan is no reading rainbow. CLOSE ADVERTISEMENT "Usually we have a set of plans and we have specs and we have stuff that we can go off of where water is where
sewer is where those kind of things are. We don't really have that, we have some stuff from the early 1900's from
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