The High Plains Reader published an intriguing article, "Gateways to History are Best Kept Open," past times Ken Smith. Smith focuses on the armory, a edifice built inwards 1905 on the campus of the quondam Manual Training School inwards Ellendale, ND. His article every bit good includes an historical sketch of the establishment that evolved to larn a branch campus of the University of North Dakota earlier closing inwards the early on 1970s.
Work on the armory is directly finished as well as inwards September, 2018 the electrical flow occupant of the campus, Trinity Bible College, volition host an opened upward solid as well as every bit good opened upward 2 other renovated campus buildings of like vintage, a residence hall as well as the president's home.
Smith comments that , "Saving as well as refurbishing these structures is an accomplishment that deserves respect or then the state as well as region. It hasn't been inexpensive or easy, merely this proficient operate deserves recognition far as well as wide."
He every bit good draws an interesting contrast amongst a argument involving the University of North Dakota's upcoming determination on possible devastation of buildings of Wesley College. Smith every bit good notes an irony where the "...state’s leading secular academy is nearly to demolish a gear upward of buildings that were in ane lawsuit devoted to a religious purpose. (While) Here inwards Ellendale our religiously based college is nearly to complete restoring a couplet of buildings that were in ane lawsuit devoted to a secular purpose."
