Couple converts elementary school into 17,000-square-foot home

CASCADE, Wis. (WTMJ) - There’s a house unlike anything else on the Wisconsin market right now.

An elementary school was turned into a home for $849,900, and it’s likely one of the most unique houses anyone has ever seen.

Cascade Elementary School in Sheboygan County does, and does not, look like what it used to.

Classrooms have been turned into bedrooms.

The bathrooms still look like elementary school restrooms, and the front desk, the principal’s office and the gymnasium are still untouched.

“When my husband told me that we were going to buy a school, I went, ‘Oh my gosh,’” owner Oristela Aguinaga reacted. “It’s like, ‘Oh, what do you mean?’”

Oristela Aguinaga owns the home with her husband Richard.

“It’s way more homey than you realize just because it kind of reminds you of your old days when you went to school,” Richard Aguinaga described.

The two bought the school in 2016 and used it as a workspace for Richard Aguinaga’s electronics business.

They sold the business, sold their old home and decided to live in the school for the past year.

Students last roamed the halls in 2010 when the school consolidated and the kids were sent to nearby Plymouth.

“Probably the biggest adjustment is the distance from one place to the other and then having to say, ‘Honey, where are you?’” Oristela Aguinaga said. “So, that we text, we carry our phones with us like, ‘Where are you?’ You know?”

The home is big and has long hallways.

The building is 17,000 square feet on about 18 acres.

There are six classrooms, five of which were turned into bedrooms.

And it has 13 bathrooms.

“A bigger family, a growing family, an in-law situation, this is the place for you,” Richard Aguinaga said.

The kitchen still has the cafeteria serving window. The couple decided to keep it because it brings back the elementary school lunch day feelings.

Some chairs and tables were left when the couple bought the property. They kept those and will be included in the sale.

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