The former Kruger Street Elementary School underwent major renovations and restoration work for nearly two years before reopening as the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum.

To accomodate tour buses and museum visitors, we built our own entrance road and parking access on the museum property.

First, demolition of unwanted areas of the structure, and removal of later add-ons, had to take place.

Burning off up to 30 layers of paint with heat guns revealed the beautiful woodwork beneath!

The pressed steel ceilings in the museum building are a trademark of the Victorian period. Although in rough shape, our building fortunately retained nearly all of its original ceilings!

Years of carpeting and recarpeting the classrooms left behind large amounts of carpet glue, which had to be chemically stripped from our floors.

As you can see, the finished product was well worth the efforts!

Those original Georgia yellow pine floors now sparkle like new!

And the ceilings show off all of their grandeur, just as they did over ninety years ago!

The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum was honored with the 2000 Grand Victorian Award for this restoration project. Taking this historic 1906 vintage school and turning it into a showcase for generations to come was the culmination of years of hard work by the Miller family, owners of the museum. The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum is especially proud of the fact that they are a totally private museum, and have used NO public funds in this project!