Marilyn Morawetz stares at the crumbling walls of a historic cafeteria building, still finding beauty in its prairie-style architecture.

“They're almost never seen in an industrial kind of setting like this,” she said. “If it goes down, our real fear is that everything will go down and that would be an incredible shame.”

The 100-year-old building closed in 2008 and sits in disrepair alongside five other heritage buildings that once formed Camp 30, on the edge of the Town of Bowmanville, Ont.

The nationally designated historical site served as a reform school for boys when it first opened in the 1920s. During the Second World War, it was converted to house German prisoners of war ( PoWs ).

“This site had, at its height, 800 PoWs ,” Morawetz said.

“When they (the PoWs ) had the re

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