The Ruins of Oak Park Academy in Nevada⁠⁠

Near the outskirts of Nevada, Iowa lies the ruins of Oak Park Academy, a boarding school built by the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1911.

An hour-long drive through Iowa’s beautiful countryside brought me to the city of Nevada, Iowa. Along its southern edge lay the remains of Oak Park Academy, a high school-level coed boarding school operated by the Seventh Day Adventists of Iowa.

T. H. Jeys founded the school in 1902 under the name Iowa Industrial Academy. For the first year, classes were held for its inaugural class of 35 students in the rented Baldum Hotel in Stuart, Iowa. The following year, it moved to a piece of farmland on the eastern edge of the town. The name later changed to Stuart Academy.

In 1911 the school was renamed Oak Park Academy and moved to Nevada, Iowa, where it remained until its closure in the spring of 1980.

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