Lansing community might say goodbye to historic landmark [Video]

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Eastern High School, a historic Lansing landmark, might soon be demolished to make way for a new psychiatric facility, and city leaders, alumni, and community members are rallying together to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The University of Michigan Health-Sparrow has plans to build a 120-bed psychiatric facility on the site of the school, but this proposal has sparked a debate over preserving the city’s history.

“I’ve just admired the building and I was kind of shocked to hear when it was slated to just be torn down,” said Dale Schrader, former President of Preservation Lansing.

The school, built in 1927, has been a community landmark for nearly a century. Lansing City Council Member Ryan Kost says they just don’t make them like this anymore.

“This isn’t an ordinary school. This is pre-World War II architecture that is absolutely gorgeous,” Kost says. “At the end of …