History & local legend
At Kane’s former Chestnut Street School, a key was required to operate the elevator. That detail became central to the building’s ghost story: people said the car sometimes moved without anyone turning the key. A cold spot in the basement was linked to the same tale, whose ghost was described as a janitor who had died there.
The building later became the focus of a children’s museum project. During a 2025 open house, former pupils returned to familiar rooms and a recreation of the school’s carpeted reading bathtub, where children once climbed in with a book.
