The white barn, located at 101 Rocket Drive in Slippery Rock, features bright red lettering that declares, “This is Rocket Territory” and serves as unheated storage space for grounds keeping equipment and materials. Submitted Photo/ Barber and Hoffman Inc.

Tracy Leturgey

The fate of the iconic wooden barn welcoming passersby to the Slippery Rock Area School District is in question after a recent engineering study of the building detailed “framing deterioration” and “significant lateral foundation movement.”

The white barn, located at 101 Rocket Drive in Slippery Rock, features bright red lettering that declares, “This is Rocket Territory” and serves as unheated storage space for grounds keeping equipment and materials.

It would cost about $300,000 to repair, Superintendent Dr. Alfonso Angelucci said after the Monday, March 27 meeting where the board received a report conducted by Barber and Hoffman Inc. (B&H) and heard from a number of community members with opinions about the structure.

“It’s kind of a symbol, an entrance to the school district. That makes it sentimental to people in the district, myself included,” Angelucci said.