For just a few years in the late 1920s, the children of Malabar, FL, attended class in their schoolhouse on Marie Street.
Then the Great Depression forced the school to close. Over the decades, the former schoolhouse has served as apartments, a woodworking shop, a mill, and most recently, a wedding venue.
Now the 8,000-square-foot building, zoned both residential and commercial, is on the market for $1.1 million.
“We fell in love with the building, and we thought we could live here,” says the listing agent and current owner, Joanne Murdoch. She and her husband, Tom, bought the property in 2012 and had big plans to renovate it and make it their home.
However, the demand for quirky event venues intervened.
“Everybody was coming out with these barn venues, and we thought this building would make a great wedding venue. So that’s the direction we went into for a number of…
